History

Bella Stuart

6 May, 23:05

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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 [in Poland), Berlin,

Prague [in Czechoslovakia) ... 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

[the Soviet capital].

-Winston Churchill,

March 5, 1946

O The Soviets have built a blockade made of iron to

control their territory

O The Soviets are tightening their control over Central

and Eastern Europe.

Famous cities in Eastern and Western Europe are

now under British control.

It is hard to understand what the Soviets are doing

because of the Iron Curtain.