Winston Churchill and Joseph Goebbels (Library of Congress/U.S. Holocaust Museum)

Winston Churchill Didn’t Originate “Iron Curtain”

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels used it several times before Churchill made it famous

Undoubtedly, “Iron Curtain” was one of the most-used Cold War phrases. Popular history attributes the metaphoric barrier separating Soviet-controlled Europe from the rest of the continent to former British Prime Minister Winston…