All About The Iron Curtain Speech
All About The Iron Curtain Speech. Churchill, who had been defeated for re-election as Churchill's "iron curtain" phrase immediately entered the official vocabulary of the Cold War. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central.
Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central. Though Churchill's remarks about the US as the clear 'pinnacle of world power' and continuing role Stalin's response to the 'Iron Curtain' speech — which Churchill titled 'The Sinews of Peace' — was to accuse the former PM of war mongering and racism. In the months after the end of world War II, the actions of the Soviet Union increasingly alarmed the leaders of From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Politicians give speeches all the time.
The actual title of Churchill's speech was "Sinews of Peace," though most people know it as the "Iron Curtain speech." Over the years there has been another twist of the record.
In the speech, Churchill said that behind an "Iron Curtain" were all the capitals of central and Eastern Europe, and that they were under the control of Moscow. Churchill blamed USSR for this problem. They are in what I call the Soviet sphere of influence.