新奇事件簿 世界處于冷戰(zhàn)邊緣

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It is 25 years since the Berlin Wall came down. For many, it represented the beginning of the end of communism in Europe and of a world divided by the Cold War. The world stared down the barrel of nuclear conflict many times, but then hope sprang up as the concrete in Berlin came tumbling down. Two-and-a-half decades on, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Ironically, he made a speech explaining why in Berlin. He accused the West of not fulfilling the promises it made after 1989. He said that: "The world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some say that it has already begun." He also criticised the United Nations for doing so little.

距柏林墻倒塌已時(shí)隔25年。對(duì)許多人來(lái)說(shuō),它代表了共產(chǎn)主義在歐洲開(kāi)始終結(jié)，結(jié)束了冷戰(zhàn)帶來(lái)的世界分裂局面。。很多次，世界都很難面對(duì)核沖突爆發(fā)的威脅,當(dāng)柏林的混凝土墻面轟然倒塌，希望再次涌現(xiàn)出來(lái)。兩年半之后,前蘇聯(lián)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人米哈伊爾.戈?duì)柊蛦谭蚓嬲f(shuō),世界正處于一場(chǎng)新冷戰(zhàn)的邊緣。具有諷刺意味的是,他在柏林發(fā)表演說(shuō)解釋了這一警告的依據(jù)。他指責(zé)西方?jīng)]有履行1989年的承諾。他說(shuō)，世界正處于一場(chǎng)新冷戰(zhàn)的邊緣。有人說(shuō),冷戰(zhàn)已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。他還批評(píng)聯(lián)合國(guó)的行動(dòng)太少。

The Berlin Wall existed between 1961 and 1990. It completely cut off land access to West Berlin from surrounding East Germany. The western powers of the USA, Germany and France controlled life in West Berlin, while communist East Germany controlled the rest. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. Anyone attempting to cross to the west was either shot or arrested by the East German border police. The wall came to symbolise the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. In 1989, a series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, which led to the Wall coming down and Germany being reunified in October 1990.

柏林墻存在于1961年到1990年之間。它完全切斷了從東德周邊地區(qū)到西柏林的路徑。西方大國(guó)美國(guó)、德國(guó)和法國(guó)控制西柏林的生活,而東德的共產(chǎn)主義控制其余部分。障礙包括大型混凝土墻，并在其旁邊設(shè)立警衛(wèi)塔。任何企圖跨越到西德的人，都會(huì)被東德邊防警察槍擊或者逮捕。柏林墻象征的“鐵幕”， 在冷戰(zhàn)期間隔離了西歐和東歐集團(tuán)。1989年, 東歐集團(tuán)發(fā)生的一系列激進(jìn)的政治變革,導(dǎo)致柏林墻倒塌，1990年10月德國(guó)重獲統(tǒng)一。