Eastern europe Quote by Anne Applebaum

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the…

— Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the…

— Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

— Winston Churchill

“If Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Cracow, Warsaw, and Berlin belong to Europe, then why not Leningrad, why not Moscow--indeed, why stop before Vladivostok? It is…

— George Konrád

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell…

— David Cameron

If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East…

— Joseph Goebbels

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the…

— Joseph Goebbels

“Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.”

— Robert Edwards

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to…

— W. Averell Harriman

“Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the…

— Timothy Snyder

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from…

— Mark Fisher