In spite of his long-term friendship with Stalin, Churchill appeared to grow to resent the spread of Communism in spite of the massive advances he and Roosevelt granted him post-war.
The speech by which the "Iron Curtain" phrase was generated was a curious one: it criticised firstly the expulsion of German settlers from Poland who had come there to further the cause of Lebensraum. Only after criticising the expulsion of the invaders did he criticise the absence of a democracy.
Regardless, we see early beginnings of a new, digital Iron Curtain, and one that may pose itself to be uglier in it's forms - for several reasons.
Putin has stated since the initiation of the invasion of Ukraine that the West hates his nation and people for Russophobic reasons. This was obvious nonsense -- Russia had integrated deeply both culturally and economically into the entirety of Europe. To the point many nations were hesitant to separate from it's gas supplies. Russians were very present in British high society and the political background -- Lebedev is now Lord Lebedev. But his nonsense is now becoming reality.
Firstly, let's consider what is going on, and then it's impacts - on the Russian state and the Russian people, separately.
Linus Torvalds stated in a rather bigoted manner that he considers all Russians aggressors and complicit in the Ukrainian war, as justification for removing Russian (maintainers are often voluntary, some are paid, payment is not necessary for a role as a maintainer of the Linux kernel):
"And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing. If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."
In violation of UK equality laws, the British Government directed banks to restrict the maximum amount of savings of Russian nationals working in the UK
there is no real need for Putin's government to enable it's citizens to access the rest of the Internet. It is superfluous at this point, and Russia continues to develop sovereign technologies - it's own Linux-based distributions, as well as the beginning of it's new ARM chips (which are likely behind China, but technology-sharing, avoidance of licenses, and industrial espionage across the world will allow them to catch up eventually).