The iron curtain, barrier of freedom? (German RD)?

Question

How come that crossing the iron curtain you could feel free?
I can understand that fact because the iron curtain was in the middle of Germany RD, not in the border to another country, so, if you could cross it, you're still inside Germany RD. That makes me crazy... it sounds like you escape from a box to get into a jail.

I'm sorry, I'm confusing 2 terms as lipsiots said. I really want to talk just about Berlin Wall. How it come that WAS in the middle of GDR and not in the BORDER of the 2 countries? It has no sense till that point. Some thing must explain what was happened there...

Answer 1

There are two things that have become confused here.

The Iron Curtain actually referred to the borders between the Warsaw Pact countries and the NATO countries, so crossing the curtain did mean going to a different country.

In Berlin, this east/west divide had a physical barrier in the shape of the Berlin Wall.

The difference between East and West Berlin, and between East and West of the Iron Curtain was, of course, the political ideologies of communism and capitalism.

Answer 2

The Iron curtain no longer exists. It was a imaginary but real division between communist countries and the western democracies. It ran through Germany. The curtain bordered many eastern European Countries. Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia etc. This fell with the failing of Communist Soviet Union.

Answer 3

If you're referring to the Berlin Wall, if you made it from East Berlin into West Berlin, you were then in the territory of West Germany, and as a result escape into West Germany.