Churchill Believed that the Soviets were installing communist governments and crushing political and religious dissent.
China and Sri Lanka
communist countries led by the Soviet Union
The iron curtain was a product of the Soviet union and the spread of communism through eastern europe through the 1950s and 60s. There was a gigantic ideological and economical divide between communist eastern european countries and the capitalist western european countries. The communist countries were believed to be behind an "iron curtain" as Winston Churchill put it. The biggest physical symbol of this was the Berlin Wall.
Stalin wanted to keep the countries he defeated. He wanted them to become part of communist USSR. Truman and Churchill wanted him to give them up and let them have peace and freedom. Stalin was not having it their way. He kept them and they were under communist rule for nearly fifty years.
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War, separating the Communist countries of Eastern Europe from the capitalist countries of Western Europe. It symbolized the division between Eastern and Western blocs and the restrictions on information and movement imposed by Communist regimes.
Winston Churchill referred to the "green line" as the "Iron Curtain." This phrase metaphorically represented the division between the Western democracies and Eastern communist countries during the Cold War. It symbolized not only a physical boundary but also the ideological separation between two contrasting political and economic systems.
It provided democracies and communist countries with an opportunity to indirectly fight one another :) -Apex-
The Soviet Union was communist. Spain, Italy, and Germany were socialist, fascist dictatorships. The rest were democracies or monarchies. Japan was an imperial empire.
An iron curtain.
Yes, the term "iron curtain" was coined during the cold war to describe the division between the Communist Soviet Union and the rest of Europe.
None of these countries are democracies.
Only four countries are communist today. They are China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. All other present day countries are either democracies or under dictatorships.Edit: Five actually. Laos is communist as well.
Churchill Believed that the Soviets were installing communist governments and crushing political and religious dissent.
It depends on what you consider a "democracy". If you mean a republic with representative powers such as the United States, most of them are with the exception of Cuba, which is a communist state.