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When Winston Churchill said “an iron curtain has descended across the continent” of Europe in 1946, what did he mean

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This means that the Soviet Union control has spread to other countries during the Cold War. It represents the Soviet Union's attempt to isolate itself and the satellite states from contact with areas with no Soviet influence. The satellites states under the Soviet control experienced extreme levels of censorship where they had little to no communication with other nations (specifically non-communist countries like the United States and Great Britain).
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Answer: European nations were being hid from the rest of democracy

Explanation: something like dat lol

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