The Iron Curtain For his part, Stalin began creating what Winston Churchill would call the "Iron Curtain." "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," said Churchill, "an iron curtain ...

Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe ...

The Allies beat Hitler. The West falls out with Stalin. Stalin creates what become the satellite states, in the East. In this book Applebaum argues that from the Soviet side it was a seamless process, ...