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Iron Curtain Reaches Bering Strait Trade Cut Between Diomedes
The National Geographic Society reports the Iron Curtain now cuts across the three mile Bering Strait between Big and Little Diomede. Russian soldiers guard Big Diomede while Eskimo families on both islands, linked by kinship, face three years of halted trade and contact across the border.
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