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Why do you think Churchill felt the need to discuss the iron curtain while at a graduation in America?

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Churchill meant that the Soviet Union had separated the eastern European countries from the west so that no one knew what was going on behind the “curtain.” He used the word “iron” to signify that it was impenetrable.
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