Iron Curtain Speech
Conditions d'achèvement
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.
Excerpt from the “Iron Curtain Speech” delivered by Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri.
- Who was Winston Churchill?
- What does he mean by "Iron Curtain"?
- What is the "Soviet sphere"?