Winston Churchill was talking about how suddenly Europe had been divided between the capitalist West, which was democratic and allied with the US, and the East which was largely made up of communist puppet states of the Soviet Union.
Stettin was a city in Germany. After the end of World War II, the border changed and it became a city in Poland, and was officially renamed Szczecin. Trieste is a city in the northeast corner of Italy.
"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".
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 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.
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.
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
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.
An 'Iron Curtain' - 'from Stettin in the north to Trieste in the south'.
The 'iron curtain' was taken from a speech by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri in 1946. He was talking about the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and said that 'from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe'. He meant that Europe was now split into two zones - East and West. This didn't change until the fall of communism in 1991.
He said in his 1946 speech, 'from Stettin in the north to Trieste in the South, an iron curtain has descended over 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 many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. -Winston Churchill Quite simply, the iron curtain was symbolic to the separation between Communism and Democracy.