Read the line from a speech by Winston Churchill in 1946.An iron curtain has descended across the continent.

Churchill’s “iron curtain” is a metaphor for the division of Europe after World War II. The Soviet Union had established control over much of Eastern Europe, separating it politically from Western Europe. Therefore, the line refers to Soviet control of Eastern Europe, not the later Berlin Wall or a division between rich and poor nations.

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