I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.