Every Generation Has its Own Wall

... West” as a way to justify the failed attempts to unite Europe would have amused its author no end. Igor Ivanov: The Sunset of Greater Europe Going on my own personal experience of interacting with Europeans across the entire continent from Lisbon to Vladivostok,... ... in the streets, a festival atmosphere of liberation, overindulgence and carelessness. Everyone assumed that the fall of the Berlin Wall would signify the end of the most difficult and painful phase of the struggle for a united Europe. And the most complicated,...