From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

— Winston Churchill in 1946

Source: Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946

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'Iron curtain’ previously had been applied by others to the Soviet Union or her sphere of influence, e.g. Ethel Snowden Through Bolshevik Russia (1920), Dr Goebbels Das Reich (25 February 1945), and by Churchill himself in a cable to President Truman (4 June 1945))

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