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Article: Iron Curtain Rises in Missouri Town; Churchill's Speech in Fulton Helped Mold Cold War Consciousness
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 1991
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The apparent decline and fall of the Soviet communist empire is
not just a Russian drama but also an American one. The American
drama is less passionate but evokes more than another fleeting blip
on the television screen. Since the dawn of the Cold War, the fabric
of life in every city and small town in the United States has been
shaped somehow in reaction to the Big Red Bear across the world.
Fulton, a town of 11,000 citizens nestled in the rolling
countryside of central Missouri, is Middle American in most
respects: agrarian, quiescent, provincial. Yet it stands as a symbol
of how deeply the 45-year struggle between East and West touched the
lives of average people. It was here, in the ...