The Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 3. Side of Europe aligned with the US and NATO after WWII
  2. 5. Alliance formed in 1949 to counter Soviet power
  3. 7. Economic system promoted by the West, contrasting with communism
  4. 9. Countries between the Soviet Union and the West , often under the soviet control
  5. 12. information used to manipulate public opinion
  6. 13. Soviet leader who helped establish the Iron Curtain after WWII
Down
  1. 1. Political system that dominated Eastern Europe during the Cold War
  2. 2. Side of Europe controlled by communist nations after WWII
  3. 4. Referring to the union of socialist republics led by Russia
  4. 6. Border crossings between East and West during the Cold War
  5. 7. The ideological and political struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet union
  6. 8. Suppression of free expression, common in Iron Curtain countries
  7. 9. German capital divided by the Iron Curtain
  8. 10. Capital of Poland
  9. 11. Physical division between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989