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We won the Cold War – and then lost our way

The world is much better for the revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe. But the West has lost some moral clarity

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

It would have been easy enough to imagine the 25th anniversary of the Eastern European revolutions being marked with a conference on liberty held in honour of Lady Thatcher — a conference which was held this week. But that is just about the only thing which could possibly have been foreseen from the vantage point of a quarter of a century ago.

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