How did Churchill define the Iron Curtain?

Answer 1

Churchil, in his famous speach, said an Iron Curtain was being created running "From Stettin to Trieste". He was however wrong about the location.

Stettin (polish spelling: Szczecin) is on the border between Poland and Germany. At the time of the speach, Poland already had a Sovier-orientated communist government, but Germany did not. The actual Iron Curtain was further west, through the middle of Germany.

Trieste was on the border between Italy and Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia did have communist government, but it was independent, not pro-soviet. So Yugoslavia was usually classified as "Neutral" during the Cold War.

Answer 2

The separation between the Soviet Union and it's satellites and the rest of Europe.

"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."

Answer 3

The

Iron Curtain

symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividingEurope

into two separate areas from the end of World War 2

in 1945 until the end of thecold war

in 1991. The Iron Curtain was erected by thesoviet union

to block itself and its dependent and central European allies off from open contact with the west and non-communist areas.

Answer 4

The military enforced separation of the states occupied by Russia after WW2 from the democratic world as exemplified by the Berlin Wall. The wall, fences and military guards holding the occupied people in was described by him as an "iron curtain".