Base your answer to the following question on the quotation and on your knowledge of social studies. ìFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and So a, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I might call the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet in uence, but to very high, and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.î ó Winston Churchill What is the main idea of this quotation? written like a 8th grader

The main idea of this quotation is that the Soviet Union has control over many countries and cities in central and eastern Europe, creating a divide known as the "iron curtain" that separates them from the rest of the continent.