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19 septembre 2018
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Svetlana Savranskaya et al., « U.S. Policy and the Revolutions of 1989, by Thomas Blanton », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.6fecxe
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The Cold War met a miraculous end during the late 1980s, with neither a bang nor a whimper. Instead, the lasting images of the Cold War’s demise were almost all peaceful (except in Romania) yet incandescent. Hammers and chisels reduced the Berlin Wall to souvenir rocks while Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” blared out over the Brandenburg Gate. A demonstrator handed dandelions to armored police in front of signs that said “Havel to the Castle,” and within days, indeed, the dissident playwright became...