A rare âmedicaneâ formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech to a crowd of more than 40,000 people. The speech was named by Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, and changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East.
These included East Germany, Poland, Hungary and other small countries in eastern Europe. Russian forces occupied these areas until the 1990s. In 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he declared that Russia had built an Iron Curtain separating eastern Europe from western Europe.