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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.
距柏林墻倒塌已時隔25年。對許多人來說,它代表了共產主義在歐洲開始終結，結束了冷戰帶來的世界分裂局面。。很多次，世界都很難面對核沖突爆發的威脅,當柏林的混凝土墻面轟然倒塌，希望再次涌現出來。兩年半之后,前蘇聯領導人米哈伊爾.戈爾巴喬夫警告說,世界正處于一場新冷戰的邊緣。具有諷刺意味的是,他在柏林發表演說解釋了這一警告的依據。他指責西方沒有履行1989年的承諾。他說，世界正處于一場新冷戰的邊緣。有人說,冷戰已經開始了。他還批評聯合國的行動太少。
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到西柏林的路徑。西方大國美國、德國和法國控制西柏林的生活,而東德的共產主義控制其余部分。障礙包括大型混凝土墻，并在其旁邊設立警衛塔。任何企圖跨越到西德的人，都會被東德邊防警察槍擊或者逮捕。柏林墻象征的“鐵幕”， 在冷戰期間隔離了西歐和東歐集團。1989年, 東歐集團發生的一系列激進的政治變革,導致柏林墻倒塌，1990年10月德國重獲統一。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
