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Maciamo said:How could we really tell ? Hasn't the EU grown up during the Cold War ? Yet old foes are now EU members too. Maybe it's difficult for an American to grasp that the Cold War wasn't so "cold", when they lived so far away from the capitalist-communsit border (the Iron Curtain).
You never lived through the "duck and cover" days like some of us American geezers did. I am old enough, ahem, to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as it was happening.