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Article: A Polish Plea for One Europe; After Reykjavik, the Battlefield Is Outer Space, Not the Elbe
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- The Washington Post
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- February 22, 1987
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THE HISTORY of contemporary Europe and the world begins with the
summit at Yalta in February 1945 and ends with the summit in
Reykjavik in October 1986. Everything before Yalta belongs to the
irretrievable past of Europe; everything after Reykjavik promises
Europe and the world entirely new horizons of development, for
which-I dare say-Europe and the two superpowers are unprepared.
Yalta 1945 was the last in a series of efforts that began with
the Tordesillas Treaty of 1494 to divide the world. It imposed on
the world the beginning of an era of compulsory nuclear peace and the
new universalism of the United Nations.
This Yaltan division of the world, which was already
anachronistic in ...