America.gov Washington — Europe and the United States, along with much of the rest of the world, were caught up in a rare state of euphoria after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, a now-historic moment that marks the symbolic end of the Cold War.
But even as the nations of Central and Eastern Europe celebrated restoration of their national independence and the end of communist rule, they faced a stark question: Now what?
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