Adaptation of Winston Churchill's
“Iron Curtain Speech” of 1946
(Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister 1940-1955)
A shadow has fallen upon the lands just lit by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their desire to expand.
We do understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of German aggression. But…An iron curtain has descended across Europe. Behind the line of that iron curtain lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in some form to Soviet influence and a very high degree of Soviet control…
Except in Britain and the United States, Communist parties are a growing challenge and danger to Christian civilization.
I do not believe that Soviet Russia desires war. What they desire are the fruits of war and the expansion of their power and ideas. But what we have to consider is the permanent prevention of war and the establishment of conditions of freedom and democracy as quickly as possible in all countries.
1. What does Churchill say has descended across Europe?
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2. What two things does Churchill argue must be established in all
countries?
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