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iron curtain
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Although the phrase had been in earlier use, it was Winston Churchill who gave it wide currency in his speech at Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946. He pointed out that the demarcation line between the Soviet and western spheres of influence had created a new Europe very different from the one the Allies had fought to save; 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' In the divided world which had resulted from *Yalta, he now argued that 'a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and the United States' was the only safe remedy. The wall dividing Berlin later came to symbolize the iron curtain, which was effectively lifted when the wall was demolished in 1989.
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