The man who coined the term Iron Curtain saw what was coming.True enough, I suppose. Problem is, the man who coined the term (in the original sense of that idiom) in this connection wasn’t Churchill:
The third, Stalin, follows much more far-reaching goals than his two comrades. He certainly does not plan to announce them publicly, but he and his 200 million slaves will fight bitterly and toughly for them. He sees the world differently than do those plutocratic brains. He sees a future in which the entire world is subjected to the dictatorship of the Moscow Internationale, which means the Kremlin. His dream may seem fantastic and absurd, but if we Germans do not stop him, it will undoubtedly become reality. That will happen as follows: 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, “Das Jahr 2000,” 25 February 1945. You may read the rest here. (I only knew this because it was mentioned in Richard J. Evans’ The Third Reich at War, the concluding volume of his Third Reich trilogy, which I read this past month.)
cordially,