> was the iron curtain a figure of speech, or a real barbed wire steel
> 'curtain' that stretched the length of eastern europe?
>
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> Michael Kaplan
Belfast had a similar figure of design,steel and concrete.
Cyprus for some 35 years now,
Korea still has one from 1952 (larger than the german iron curtain ?)
Israel already constructed other walls before.
and remember the Maginot défense line from the "drôle de guerre"
(relatively huge too)
(China is a well known location for such extended stone-walling)
Many other exemples could be quoted, from the roman wall in northern england
against Celtics/Vikings or their buddies, the walls around (feodal) cities
like Avignon, and some others, like the modern steel curtain at the Mexican
/ US border... a real iron curtain....
we as humans love to feel secure. Living as bipedestrians at ground level,
we can't easily cave or nest out of danger, so we must build such stone or
steel artifices to defend our material (eventually ideological) world. from
who ? eventually from ourselves...
and the game to any kind of outsider is to force the entrance.
the powergate game is always on.
(funny: Powerade is supposed to give strength ,too, and Gatorade combines
strenght with some "gate" sportgame....) but must be just a
vocabulary/syntax/phonetics mind game here. Sorry to make you read such
divagations.
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