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...fate is not in its own hands but in those of the superpowers. There are signs that Eastern Europe too is experiencing a change. Says Rumanian-born Political Scientist Pierre Hassner, a research fellow at Paris' National Foundation of Political Science: "There is a tension between the rigid East-West strategic balance on the one hand and changing popular attitudes and life-styles on the other. The security arrangement has guaranteed four decades of peace, but people are increasingly weary of a system that represses their aspirations...
Nonetheless, apprehension runs deep on the Continent that the nuclear-arms race between the superpowers is accelerating and that the battlegrounds of World War II could be those of a future East-West conflict. That fear is in a sense a permanent symptom of Europe's subordinate, postwar place in the nuclear-dominated world. In Western Europe's uncertain mood, governments and institutions have begun to recognize that there are limits to their ability to deal with change. Authority and self-confidence have come under some strain. Once mighty traditional labor unions are on the defensive, losing membership and influence...
...segregated unease of Western and Eastern Europe comes together where the victorious Allies met in 1945: Germany. In the 1970s, the age of East-West détente, West Germany tried to build bridges to the East with its Ostpolitik, a reaching out to East Germany and the rest of the bloc through increased economic, diplomatic and personal ties. For their part, the 17 million East Germans took solace from an economy that, while it lagged far behind West Germany's, provided them with a standard of living higher than that of the Soviets...
...EAST-WEST A Promise Not to Shoot...
...Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says, "but Shekhar brought this East-West sensibility to it. The dancing. The way he moved from point to point in the plot, with no logic. His willingness to make big, sudden changes. He was completely and utterly unusual, and deeply unafraid." Critics wondered at the ahistorical sumptuousness of the movie and whether the director...