5 March - Monday
Day of disabled gadgets
Day of communication with random fellow travelers
Great day's digs
Day of the deification of the telephone deity
Day of quiet steps and imperceptible views
The day of forgiveness of all offenses
Day of the theatrical cashier
1946 Winston Churchill called the division of Europe a "Iron Curtain"
1970 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force
1946 Winston Churchill called the division of Europe a "Iron Curtain"
The Iron Curtain is a political cliche that denotes the information, political and frontier barrier erected by the USSR and for several decades separating the Union and other socialist countries from the capitalist countries of the West. The expression "Iron Curtain" became widespread thanks to Winston Churchill. It was the former Prime Minister of Great Britain Churchill, speaking on March 5, 1946 in the American city of Fulton, used this phrase, giving it a classical meaning. Despite the fact that the expression "Iron Curtain" was used in Europe during the two world wars, it became a political term only after Churchill uttered in his Fulton speech the famous phrase: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, the iron a curtain...". The Iron Curtain fell in the late 1980s as a result of the policy of openness and openness held in the USSR and Eastern European countries. The symbol of the final fall of the iron curtain was the destruction of the Berlin Wall.