HELP PLASE GIVING Use the quote below to briefly explain why Churchill described the “Soviet sphere” in these terms.

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.”

—Winston S. Churchill, “Iron Curtain Speech,” March 5, 1946