After being awarded an honorary degree from Westminster College in Missouri, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech on what he predicted to be the future of relations between the West and the East.  This speech is often referred to as the famous “Iron Curtain” speech:

The following documents are from diplomats stationed in the other country.  Their jobs were to analyze actions and patterns of thinking of the country to which they were stationed and to report back to their respective governments.  These documents were TOP SECRET and only published many years later.