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Article: Walker's World: Europe after the Wall.
- Article from:
- UPI Emerging Threats
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Exactly 20 years ago a grand historical shift took place. Like the fall of the Roman Empire or the defeat of the Islamic invasions of Europe at Tours in the eighth century or at the gates of Vienna in the 17th, it was an event that seems fated to define a whole era of global history. And it may be the last occasion when a moment so portentous takes place in Europe.
For the fall of the Berlin Wall may have symbolized many things, from the end of Stalin's wretched empire to the triumph of capitalism, but it really marked the end of those long centuries when Europe was the pivot on which world history turned.
This was masked for a while by the diplomatic ...