World leaders gathered in Berlin this week to praise the fall of the Berlin Wall as the event that united Germany, freed Eastern Europe and ended the Cold War. But seen from the vantage point of the past two decades, have the hopes surrounding the events of 1989 born fruit? Or does the fall of the wall represent the greatest missed opportunity in the history of Russian-European relations? Did the wall really come down in Europe? Has the EU and NATO enlargement created new divisions and walls in Europe? Will Russian ideas about a new security architecture in Europe ever be seriously explored by its Western partners?
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