Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech: The Psychology Behind History

What Happened Churchill’s March 1946 speech at Westminster College introduced the phrase “iron curtain” to describe Soviet control over Eastern Europe, delivered before President Harry Truman and a small audience in Missouri. The 71-year-old former prime minister warned that Communist parties were seeking “totalitarian control” across Europe and called for Anglo-American unity to counter Soviet expansion. However, the psychological story behind this historic moment is far more complex than the decisive rhetoric suggests.