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The funny thing about the iron curtain is that NATO started it and pretended in hindsight it was the USSR's idea. Churchill gave his "iron curtain" speech in 1946. Stalin replied to it.
NATO formed 6 years before the warsaw pact in 1949. They rejected the USSR joining NATO for collective security in 1954. They let West Germany in 1955 only 10 years after the holocaust, when chancellor Adenauer laughably declared that denazification was complete. The US was already couping countries for being too close to the USSR or trying to develop independently of the imperial core as early as 1953 (Mossadegh) and 1954 (Arbenz).
There you have it. Who is really responsible for the erection of the so-called "iron curtain?" Who is really responsible for the divisions that caused the cold war?
not the USSR, and not stalin