The Curtain, often compared the the Berlin Wall as the Berlin Wall did exactly what the Iron Curtain described by Churchill did, was said to be splitting the globe between Communism and fair governments (republics, democracies, etc.) The Berlin Wall did this by dividing Germany between the Communist Eastern Bloc and the Republic Western Bloc.
He meant that Europe had become divided between the free Western part and the Soviet-dominated, totalitarian Eastern part that was under the tyranny of Josef Stalin and had no freedom. The USSR and the Western world worked together to defeat Hitler, but following the collapse of Nazi Germany bitter rivalries developed between the Communist East and the Capitalist West. This resulted in the Soviet Union establishing the warsaw Pact Treaty, that ceded the Central and Eastern European nations to Communist rule- they had their own Governments, but these were ultimately answerable to Moscow which tolerated no dissent and crushed any attempt at liberalisation, as happened in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 / 69. An excpetion was Yugoslavia, which was tolerated as a more liberal Communist federation by the Soviets, under the Government of Marshal Tito. Yugoslav Communism was much freer and more palatable to the West than the Soviet model.
He was referring to the Nazi Party, who were to grow into a mass movement that ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 and in that time invaded countries bording Germany.
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The Iron Curtain mostly refers to the spread of Communist countries after WWII, and other territories owned by the USSR.
Winston Churchill foresaw that, though Russia had eventually become an ally in the fight against Nazis Germany, Stalin was not to be totally trusted. Once WW2 ended in the West, Stalin brought down the "Iron Curtain" and effectively started the "Cold War" between Russia and the West.
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He meant that the Russians had imposed their will against the west with a socioeconomic and political quarantine
This means that there was a rift, a separation between the USSR and the allies
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His description was an 'Iron Curtain' had descended upon Soviet controlled territories .
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The Soviet Union installing communist governments in Eastern Europe.
WINSTON CHURCHILL quoted that quote
This is from the famous 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri in 1946. He was talking about the increasing Soviet influence in eastern Europe. He also said in his speech, "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe".
Coined by Sir Winston Churchill in an address to Westminster College, March 1946. He stated that 'an Iron Curtain had descended across Europe.....we are all subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to increasing measures of control from Moscow'
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
Winston Churchill described the border between the communist Eastern Europe and the West as an iron curtain.
He said an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent.
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