winston churchill is widely credited with coining the term iron curtain.
winston churchill is widely credited with coining the term iron curtain.
who is widely credited with coining the term iron curtain?
winston churchill
during the yalta conference, where the western, capitalist powers, and the communist soviet union agreed on separate spheres of influence in europe, they set up the stage for a geopolitical rivalry that would dominate international relations for the next five decades. in march 1946, winston churchill gave a now famous speech while visiting westminster college in the us which is usually credited as the first use of the term iron curtain to refer to the separation of soviet and western areas of influence in 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 some cases increasing measure of control from moscow.indeed, the soviet union have already annexed several countries as soviet socialist republics during the war. eastern poland (incorporated into the byelorussian ssr and the ukrainian ssr), latvia (which became the latvian ssr), estonia (which became the estonian ssr), lithuania ( which became the lithuanian ssr), part of eastern finland (which became the karelo-finnish ssr) and eastern romania (which became the moldavian ssr) were now wholly part of soviet union. furthermore, between 1945 and 1949, yugoslavia, albania, bulgaria, poland, romania, czechoslovakia, hungary and east germany saw communist regimes coming to power and their transformation into people's republics. while they remained independent countries and their relation with the soviet authorities would fluctuate over the next half century, they were widely seen as soviet satellite states. outside of europe, countries that would see the rise of communism and would ally themselves to the communist block include mongolia, china, north korea, cuba and vietnam.
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the iron curtain was the boundary dividing europe in the cold war.









































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bullet::::- irumbu thirai (tamil for "iron curtain"), a 1960 film
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