Iron Curtain

''From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .'' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the ''Iron Curtain'' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not su...