"The Iron Curtain has fallen on Europe," Churchill said on March 5, 1946, in Fulton. After World War II, the world was divided for half a century, and a satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky's joke "I have urgent business in Paris" caused laughter in the audience. The ordinary Soviet citizen knew for sure that he was practically not destined to see Paris. He had no business there, especially not with urgent matters.