It was widely considered the speech that defined the Cold War that was about to engulf the world for the next four decades. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent" Churchill said. On newspaper front pages, in movie newsreels and on the evening news were almost daily stories of East Berliners attempting to scale or even dig under a wall dotted with guard towers and checkpoints. Full Article at Tulsa World