Iron Curtain Quotes

21 Iron Curtain quotes by 19 unique authors

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — 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 capitals… — Winston Churchill
With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history. — Vasily Rozanov
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain… — Harry Elmer Barnes
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on… — Gabor Szabo
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more… — Jan Peter Balkenende
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… — Arthur Koestler
What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done… — Paul Washer
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the… — Joseph Rotblat
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 [German]… — Joseph Goebbels
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain… — Natan Sharansky
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the… — Bob Dole
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was… — Herbie Hancock
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which… — Ezra Taft Benson
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal. — P.J. O'Rourke
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to… — Mike Pompeo
The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. — Robert Gottlieb
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see… — Thomas Gold
If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and… — Joseph Goebbels

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