Telling- the- truth syndrome has come to stay in CPM; Iron curtain cracks The Iron Curtain has cracked, for telling-the-truth syndrome has come to stay in the CPM. In that case, a lot of instances which should have come out in the open but kept within the echelons of the party hierarchy would come up in the public arena in the not-so-far future. Some others could also come out in the open. There is no sacrosanct party discipline as such. In an era where social media, the internet and channels have broadened the horizon of people's knowledge, there can be no sanctity to the hidden agenda of any party.