Monday, January 21, 2019
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain became more popular after Winston Churchill's speech in 1946. He warned the American people that an "iron curtain" has divided Europe into two. On the Eastern side, there are the Soviet Union and other countries under communist rule. On the Western side, there are the countries allied with the US which are under democratic rules. Both sides created different alliances: the East created the Warsaw Pact and the West created the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Iron Curtain was a symbol of the Soviet Union blocking Western influence from its territories. This idea of barrier scared many Americans during the Cold War. The Iron Curtain loosened after Stalin's death in 1953, but the construction of the Berlin Wall reinforced it in 1961. It was after the Cold War in the 1990s that the Iron Curtain finally fell.
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It's pretty fascinating how Stalin never gave up on his political goal on border security and how Russia would enforce and chase after this goal through basically the entirety of the 20th century.
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