Winston Churchill. The former Prime Minister was in the US and speaking at tiny Fulton College in Missouri when he said "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended on Europe". Churchill always had quite a turn of phrase.
In Fulton, Missouri, Churchill made a famous speech in which he referred to the world as having been split into two parts. The sphere of the old Western countries and the sphere of the Soviet's. After the WWII, the territory that had been liberated from the Nazis in the eastern part of Europe got under Soviet influence, controlled from Moscow (and building communism). He said: ...an iron curtain has descended across the continent." And a Cold War started.
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.
Winston Churchill famously declared that an "iron curtain" had descended across Eastern Europe in his speech on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. This phrase symbolized the division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the Western democracies during the early Cold War period. Churchill's speech highlighted the growing tensions and ideological divide between the East and West.
Winston Churchill famously said that an "iron curtain" had descended across Eastern Europe in his speech on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. This phrase metaphorically represented the division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the Western democracies during the early Cold War period. Churchill's speech highlighted the growing tensions and ideological divide between the East and West.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." ~ Winston Churchill, speech at Fulton, Missouri, 1946
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".
Winston Churchill
The Iron Curtain was a term coined in the years after the war by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's control of the countries of Central Europe. "From Stetin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended upon the Continent," Churchill spoke in a famous speech in Saint Louis, MO, after the war.
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He said an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent.
Winston Churchill in one of his speeches said "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent." As with any saying nobody really created it but Winston Churchill made it famous. The first time this saying was ever used was in 1819 and it was used in the sense of an impenetrable barrier. I hope this answers your question.
Yes. In a speech at Fulton Missouri in 1946, he said that 'from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe'.
Winston Churchill. The former Prime Minister was in the US and speaking at tiny Fulton College in Missouri when he said "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended on Europe". Churchill always had quite a turn of phrase.
Winston Churchill. The former Prime Minister was in the US and speaking at tiny Fulton College in Missouri when he said "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended on Europe". Churchill always had quite a turn of phrase.
The Iron Curtain was a rhetorical device in a Churchill speech. He said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." By this he meant that no one could leave the countries that were to the east of that line. There wasn't actually a huge metal curtain between the West and East. Stalin didn't want anyone to leave the Soviet Union because he knew everyone would leave. He knew communism is not a popular system of government.
The Soviet Union installing communist governments in Eastern Europe.