“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Winston Churchill
“If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.”
Joseph Goebbels
“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“[Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.] We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“We won't build another iron curtain within Jerusalem -- this is something Israel will not accept,”
Limor Livnat
“It may be an Iron Curtain for the Crazy Dogs,”
Mark Keller
“Anything east of the former Iron Curtain is still significantly cheaper than Western Europe.”
Edward Hasbrouck
