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.
Prague was a city in the territory of military and political control of the Soviet Union (see Iron Curtain). The biggest Stalin Monument was unveiled on LetnÃ¡ hill in 1955 and destroyed in 1962. The 4th Czechoslovakian Writers' Congress held in the city in June 1967 took a strong position against the regime.