What point was Winston Churchill making in his iron curtain speech?
Just a sentence or two about what point Winston Churchill was trying to make in his iron curtain speech. Winston Churchill, in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address (otherwise known as the Iron Curtain speech), first coined the term ‘Iron Curtain’ which for 5 decades later was an international symbol of eastern communist oppression and removal of human rights. The speech had NOTHING to do with the Berlin Wall, which was built many years later, although the Wall is future evidence of what Churchill said. Here is a quote from the speech (courtesy of Wikipedia): “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 influe
