On this day, 79 years ago, on March 5, 1946 (February 2, 1946 in the lunar calendar), Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain Speech", marking the beginning of the Cold War. On March 5, 1946, British Prime Minister Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain Speech" in Fulton, United States. In March 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered an anti-Soviet and anti-Communist speech in Fulton, United States. Also known as the Iron Curtain Speech. In January 1946, Churchill was invited to visit the United States. On March 5, accompanied by US President Truman, he arrived in Fulton, Missouri, and delivered a speech entitled "Pillar of Peace" at Truman's alma mater, Westminster College. In his speech, Churchill publicly attacked the Soviet Union's "expansion", declaring that "from Szczecin on the Baltic Sea to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea, an Iron Curtain across the European continent has been lowered." The Soviet Union has exerted increasingly high-pressure control over Central and Eastern European countries east of the "Iron Curtain. The relevant content of the State of the Union address delivered by U.S. President Truman on March 12, 1947 marked the official implementation of the "Cold War" policy by the United States and other Western countries towards the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. In 1991, the Soviet Union and the "Warsaw Pact" disintegrated, and the 40-year "Cold War" between the two major blocs of the United States and the Soviet Union ended.