stailin's iron curtain 1946?

Question

stalin's iron curtain 1946.. why is it called stalin's iron curtain. when he didn't make it up? didn't churchill do everything. i am doing a report on him and i am confused.. plz help me!

Answer 1

Winston Churchill coined the phrase in a speech on the post-war political situation at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".

Answer 2

Churchill filched the phrase from a debate in Parliament. Many of the most celebrated Churchillian phrases were second hand, but are somehow always attributed to him.

Had he been able to do it, the old bird would have strung his own curtain against Russia, which he hated whether Communist or Tsarist. All his none sense about a "soft under belly" was his monomaniacal drive to spear north from the Mediterranean and cut off the Russian advance. Had we wasted any more time on this foolishness, the war would have lasted another year and the Russians would have reached the North Sea and controlled all of central Europe.

To understand Churchill it is probably best to begin with the understanding that he was a Victorian imperialist with a19th century geopolitical mindset. This always included the notion that Russia was the most dangerous and constant enemy in the eastern Mediterranean, and must be blocked at all costs from getting out of the Black Sea or destroying the Ottoman Empire.

It is often said that the reason he resisted the cross-Chanel invasion so long was that he was never more delighted than when watching the Russians and the Germans tearing each other apart and reducing their respective warrior populations.

He had a very great influence on the thinking of Pres. Harry Truman who took up the cause of the old Brit. as he own.

Answer 3

Bh1853 is correct in that this phrase entered conventional usage with Churchill’s Fulton, Missouri speech and became more linked with Russia than specifically with Stalin, although in those times it might be difficult to separate the two.

John S’s comments are also interesting. Certainly Churchill feared Russia and probably more so than Germany. However, if a fear is based on reality then one is forearmed. As Shakespeare wrote in Troilus and Cressida, “To fear the worst oft cures the worst.” With Stalin Churchill’s fear (or dislike if you will) was modest if anything.

Stalin was one of the worst and cruel dictators of the 20th Century. The deaths he caused far exceeded those of Hitler. If Stalin had gone unchecked he would have taken all of Europe and China. Only alert force kept him in check and part of that checking was the attitude of Churchill.

Answer 4

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