"The Iron Curtain" by Winston Churchill

Churchill discusses his beliefs on the duty of Western democracies regarding the "iron curtain" which was a line that divided the U.S.S.R dominated Eastern Europe and the democratic Western Europe:

• It is understandable that the U.S.S.R wants to protect its western borders with buffer states in order to protect itself from any renewal of German aggression
• The U.S.S.R controls all of the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe including Warsaw, Berlin, and Prague.
• All of these countries are subjects under the control of the powers at Moscow
• The Communism in these countries are producing totalitarian control and police governments
• The West must fight for a free and liberal Europe which they fought for in World War II
• We must settle with our Russian friends to ensure a free Europe before a catastrophe overwhelms the whole world