Estonia Swedent Moscow Riga North Sea Gole bor四 Latvia Battic Russia Sea Lithania Minsk Stettin BELARUS Berlin ■Varsaw GERMANY Leipzig POLAND Kiev Bonn Frankfurt Prague ■Krakow UKRAINE CZECH REPUBLKC Paris SLOVAKIA Munich enna■ MOLDOVA ANCE aBern AUSTRIA Budapest SWITZERLAND HUNGARY Geneva Lyon a Trieste Sloverpia ROMANIA Milana Venice CROATA Bucharest Black Sea BOSNIA Belgrade Marseille Florence SERBLA ■ BULGARIA ITALY ■ Sofia Adriatic Rome Sea AL4N]A Turkey Mediterranean13.1 The Iron Curtain Iron Curtain (1946) • In March 1946, Winston Churchill delivered a long speech in Futon, Missouri, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere