Sentence examples for cold war border from inspiring English sources

I can vouch for John Palmer's experience of the Norwegian-Soviet cold war border (Letters, 15 March).

Due to its status as a cold war border zone, much of the green belt around the city is pristine.

The result is a 250-mile-long network of trails, zigzagging between the two European capitals past ruined castles, cute villages, dense forests and the once-forbidden Cold War border.

northsea-cycle.com History buffs can cycle the former dividing line between east and west Europe on the Iron Curtain Trail, a 6,800km route along the continent's cold war border.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who as Soviet leader presided over the troops and tanks that guarded the Iron Curtain, now wants a nature reserve along the full length of the former cold war border, from Finland to the Adriatic.

The pilotless MiG, however, recovered from engine problems, and flew through western Poland, East Germany - and over the Cold War border into West Germany.

Although the idea of making parks along former cold war borders has been around since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the conference was the first time that representatives of all the border countries had met to discuss the feasibility of having parkland run the length of the Iron Curtain.

Summoned to both defy and define cold war borders, escapees were commonly relegated to the shadowy interstices of sovereign space: the borderland where east and west, foreign and domestic, symbolic and material awkwardly overlapped.

The Estonian and Polish leaders have asked for a permanent presence of Nato troops on their soil, but any such bases could violate a 1997 pact with Russia that was meant to reassure Moscow about post-Cold War borders.

He then followed leads through the byways of astronomy and book publishing in the 16th century, made side excursions into astrology and bookworms (literal as well as figurative), crossed cold-war borders into the vaults and stacks of libraries from Moscow to Melbourne and hobnobbed with rare book dealers and collectors, including some shady operators.

Disputes over the border date back to the 14th century, when Finland was part of Sweden, and more recently during the Cold War the border formed part of the Iron Curtain, with the Soviet Union setting up border surveillance 75 miles out to prevent escapes.