Iron Curtains

            
       From The Apocalypse of Our Time by the philosopher Vasili Rozanov in 1919, who had died that same year of starvation in the Troitse-Sergeev monastery:

                                 La divina Commedia

                                With clanking screeching an iron curtain is lowered over Russian History.
                                "The performance is over."
                                The audience got up.
                                "Its time to put on your fur coats and go home."
                                 They looked round.
                                 But it turned out that there were no fur coats and no homes.


      Google:  The expression Iron Curtain was coined by Winston Churchill, who was prime minster of Britain in World War 11.  Churchill first used the term soon after the war, when the Soviet Union was beginning to carry out its plans for post-war dominance of eastern Europe.