Who made this statement in 1946?: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
A) Winston Churchill
B) Franklin Roosevelt
C) Harry Truman
D) Joseph Stalin
Answer: A
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