ABSTRACT
In the years 1989-91 the face of Europe was changed. This was the end of a 45-year period during which the continent had been more sharply divided into two parts than ever before (except in wartime). Eastern Europe’s rulers sealed it off, depriving its inhabitants of contact with their western neighbours. Families were
divided; letters were censored; western broadcasts were jammed; people who tried to escape to the west were killed.
