Subject: Re: Iron Curtain still present in Europe<br/>
Date: Sep 11, 2005 @ 23:43<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-221035629"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; Would it be correct that only 7 tripoints of all these<br/>
&gt; surviving countries will be included in this new Iron<br/>
&gt; Curtain Trail?<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/12/254.html">http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/12/254.html</a><br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>it may well be correct or incorrect jim<br/>
but the projected route of the trail that is mentioned here is in any case purely fantastic<br/>
& not clearly delineated anyway<br/>
<br/>
the actual iron curtain<br/>
as it was originally described by churchill anyway<br/>
descended across the continent <br/>
from stettin aka szczecin in the baltic to trieste in the adriatic<br/>
<br/>
of course he himself was wrong about stettin<br/>
which is in poland & was several hundred km east of the true iron curtain<br/>
even as he was inventing the term<br/>
but that is not necessarily any reason to doubt him about trieste<br/>
<br/>
anyway the bit here about following the danube down to the black sea is totally bogus<br/>
<br/>
& even michaels original article <br/>
oops <br/>
no longer attached<br/>
was referring not to the real iron curtain but only to the ussr czechoslovak border<br/>
so forget about huskua<br/>
<br/>
the true iron curtain passed <br/>
i believe<br/>
only thru the present finoru atczde atczsk athusk athusi & atitsi tricountry points<br/>
<br/>
6 in all<br/>
<br/>
& i dont know but that some folks might want to add algrmk bggrmk & bggrtr to these<br/>
making 9<br/>
or even to continue with another dozen or so from the black sea to southeast asia<br/>
incorporating the extension of this great divide that was usually called the bamboo curtain <br/>
too<br/>
<br/>
but i think the best answer to the question you didnt really ask is probably only the 6 or 9 <br/>
tripoints i have enumerated</div>