Cold War
These days, following Putin’s attack on Ukraine and the world seeming to be once again split in two, people are talking about the new ‘Cold War’. But times have changed.
Goenawan Mohamad
April 18, 2022
ANYONE born after 1990 would not have felt the shudders of the night of November 9, 1989: thousands of citizens of East Berlin smashed the wall that had imprisoned them for almost 30 years—the wall that symbolized the tensions of the ‘cold war’ that divided people everywhere in the 20th century.
Berlin was fundamentally a wound: a symbol of the defeat of Nazi Germany, a city strewn with war ruins occupied and carved up by the v
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