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A wall comes down, a new world is born

A wall comes down, a world is born
  • © Georges Malempré.

The world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakthrough for peace and democracy it symbolized. UNESCO Director-General-elect Irina Bokova issues a warning: “Too many walls remain,” she says. In the UNESCO Courier, Ukrainian author Andrei Kurkov talks about what happened after the Wall fell.

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