Iron curtain Quote by 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

If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation.…

— Joseph Goebbels

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

— Winston Churchill

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.

— Walther von Brauchitsch

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have…

— Niall Ferguson

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged…

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the…

— Petra Kelly