Beyond the Curtain
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Ten years ago, Eastern Europe was reborn in a magical season of hope. From Poland and East Germany, on south to Bulgaria, the concrete and barbed wire of the Iron Curtain vanished. People found new energy. It was a time when everything seemed possible.
Berlin Bureau Chief Carol J. Williams and Times photographer Al Seib covered the events of 1989. Traveling the region’s frontiers again for a special section in today’s Times, they found that much of what separates people today is psychological. None of it is as forbidding as the Iron Curtain. And no one wants to turn back the clock. Section S
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