{"id":1902491,"date":"2023-03-21T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-brief-history-of-the-iron-curtain\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:17:59","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-iron-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-brief-history-of-the-iron-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History Of The Iron Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-brief-history-of-the-iron-curtain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <span>Between 1945 and 1989, Berlin served as the dividing line between two opposing factions. To the west were capitalist democracies, led by the United States, and to the east were totalitarian communist dictatorships, dominated by the Soviet Union. The emergence of modern capitalism is still debated today, but it first appeared in Europe during the industrial revolution as countries transitioned towards private ownership of major enterprises. The rise of private enterprise coincided with the Enlightenment, which emphasized individual reasoning and decision-making instead of authoritarian dictates. This philosophy was integrated into the theoretical foundation of capitalism by Scottish economist Adam Smith in his book, &#8220;An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations&#8221;. Smith observed that competition and self-interest motivated people to make mutually beneficial arrangements. This fundamental observation marked a turning point in human history allowing more people to enjoy freedom and prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Marxism, on the other hand, emerged as a critique of capitalism in the 1830s. Alexandre Vinet first used the term socialism to describe various collectivist economic and moral theories that were critical of private enterprise. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would later refine this idea in their book, &#8220;The Communist Manifesto,&#8221; presenting their views on the problems with capitalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1945-1989, the city of Berlin was the dividing line between two hostile camps. West of Berlin lay a coalition of capitalistic liberal democracies spearheaded by the United States \u2013 to the East laid a string of communist totalitarian dictatorships dominated by the Soviet Union. When exactly modern capitalism emerged is a subject of academic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":1902492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[22407,4919,12543],"class_list":["post-1902491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-curtain","tag-history","tag-iron"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}