Iron Curtain Speech

From steady in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line, by all the capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia. All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere. And all our subjects in one form or another not only to Soviet influence, but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow