The Fulton speech on Soviet security and political control

The passage opens with Churchill expressing admiration for the Russian people and recognising their fear of renewed German aggression. He describes an Iron Curtain running from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic and claims growing Soviet control over the states behind it. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia appear in his account. He contrasts that position with an election in Greece under Western observation. The passage also condemns the expulsion of Germans and the disproportionate power of Communist parties. His claim that the states behind the curtain lack true democracy explicitly excepts Czechoslovakia at that time. These are Churchill's claims and distinctions in the 1946 speech, preserved as an argument to examine.