What was the “Iron Curtain” that Winston Churchill referred to?

Churchill used “Iron Curtain” as a metaphor for the political divide separating Soviet-controlled communist countries in Eastern Europe from free, democratic countries in Western Europe. It was not a literal wall of missiles or a plan to push the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe. The correct choice is “An imaginary line that separated communist countries from free countries in Europe.”

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