The Iron Curtain was a problem because it blockaded access to East Berlin and prevented the free flow of Germans across the borders between East and West Germany. More broadly it prevented the movement of ideas and peoples across this artificially created boundary. And more importantly than that it signified the dividing line of the Cold War between Western Europe and the United States and the Soviet Union which had a major impact on fomenting mistrust and conflict.
People's Party was critical of capitalism and thought that banks and other institutions had the potential to abuse their workers.
They believed that if the government took control over the railroads and banks, it could prevent those institutions from abusing their workers.
Answer:
The silk road is more important.
Explanation:
The silk road was a trade route that connected East Asia, the middle east, European continent, and the African continent.
The trade routes was named "silk route" because it's popular among Chinese merchants in the past to distribute their silk product.
That's being said, the route itself is more important than the production of silk. The majority of the wealth that generated by Chinese empire did not came from silk alone. Products such as tea, porcelain, medicine, weapons, tomes, and herbs that sold by the Chinese merchants on this route brought larger amount of wealth for the empire.
