The iron curtain Winston Churchill referred to?

Answer 1

The Iron Curtain symbolized dividing of Europe into two isolated parts:

• Russia and her satellite countries, which formed military Warsaw Pact and economic Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• democratic counties of Western Europe which formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (with USA) and European Community

Winston Churchill use words "iron curtain" during his speech on 5 March 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

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Answer 2

totalitarian communist leaders.