Anything east of the former Iron Curtain is still significantly cheaper than Western Europe.

[Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.] We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism.

It may be an Iron Curtain for the Crazy Dogs,

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

We won't build another iron curtain within Jerusalem -- this is something Israel will not accept,

If you insist on having things reserved and purchased from the U.S. beforehand, rather than arranging to purchase them locally, that can have a profound effect on costs.