Iron Curtain is a phrase made popular by the British statesman Winston Churchill in the 1940’s. The phrase referred to the Soviet Union’s isolation policy after World War II (1939-1945). The Soviet Union set up trade barriers and a rigid censorship that cut off the country and its Eastern European “satellite” countries from the rest of the world.
Loading the player...Excerpt from Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
See also Cold War (The Iron Curtain descends) .
