Actually the "iron curtain" did not "tighten the soviet hold". The term "iron curtain" was a fictitious symbolic name used by Winston Churchill to describe the hold the Russians had over the Eastern Bloc. The hold the soviets had over eastern Europe was already tight before the term became popular.
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Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill described the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe as an Iron Curtain that kept democratic western influences out of the Soviet controlled Eastern Europe through military force.
The Warsaw Pact was eastern Europe's response to NATO
The iron curtain divides the line between the Western and Eastern part of Europe. In the Eastern part of Europe under the rule of the Soviet Union, Communism was the type of government practiced. While The other part enjoyed a democratic form of government. Neither country on either side was supposed "to go join the other side". Thus the iron curtain divided Europe but not for long.
(Iron Curtain)By 1946, less than a year after the end of World War II, it became clear that the Soviet Union planned to control the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, and other people of Eastern Europe. Stalin forced communist government on these people. He also used his secret police to arrest anyone who opposed his rule.Many Eastern Europeans tried to escape Soviet control by fleeing to the West. But the Soviets stopped them by building a barbed wire fence which cut off Eastern Europe from the West. They also blocked trade between the eastern and western parts of Europe. Winston Churchill called the Soviet-controlled border between the East and West the "Iron Curtain."
Iron Curtain
The 'Iron Curtain'.
iron curtain
Winston Churchill described the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe as an Iron Curtain that kept democratic western influences out of the Soviet controlled Eastern Europe through military force.
His description was an 'Iron Curtain' had descended upon Soviet controlled territories .
The Warsaw Pact was eastern Europe's response to NATO
The Soviet Union's aggression after World War II was especially focused in Eastern Europe. Winston Churchill claimed the Soviet Union was extending the Iron Curtain.
"Iron Curtain"
An Iron Curtain.
The Iron Curtain is the term Churchill used to describe the division of Europe. Winston Churchill served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
It is a metaphor coined by Winston Churchill in the years after WW 2, when the Soviet-dominated Communist countries in eastern Europe closed their borders to Western Europe to their own citizens. It was as though the Communist countries were behind a curtain, an iron curtain.
Churchill condemned the Soviet Unions policies in Europe and declared that from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across Europe. Part of a speech given at Fulton, Missouri, March 1946