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=The Iron Curtain= ==

The presence of the Soviet army in Eastern Europe ensured the pro-Soviet Communist governments would eventually be established in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. These nations had to remain communist and friendly to the Soviet Union. After watching the Communist takeover in Eastern Europe, Winston Churchill coined a phrase to describe what had happened. With the Iron Curtain separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West, the World War II era had come to an end.

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