This divide in the world was called the ‘Iron Curtain’. Once again, the smallest continent of Europe was at the centre stage of the global political theatre. Just as it had been the battleground during the real war, now Europe was the political battleground between USA and Western European allies to the west of Germany, and USSR and its communist allies to the east of Germany, with the country itself split. This imaginary line between two systems, two ideologies, became known as the ‘Iron Curtain’.