"ein eiserner Vorhang"

The History Channel just informed me that it was Goebbels, rather than Churchill, who coined the term "Iron Curtain". He did so in a 1945 warning in Das Reich, the Nazi Party newspaper, as to what would happen if the Germans laid down their arms. He predicted (accurately) Soviet occupation over East and Southeast Europe, and the greater part of Germany, with the aforementioned Iron Curtain separating Bolshevism from Europe.

As they say: good artists borrow, great artists steal.

Don't believe me?