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66 years ago this month, Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. 
This telegram, from George Kennan at the United States Embassy to Secretary of State James Byrnes, details the Soviet reaction to the speech a few days later on March 11, 1946.
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66 years ago this month, Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

This telegram, from George Kennan at the United States Embassy to Secretary of State James Byrnes, details the Soviet reaction to the speech a few days later on March 11, 1946.

Source: trumanlibrary.org

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