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What Is ‘the West’?

The idea of a cohesive West is fading, but a new book finds that the concept endures. November 26, 2025, 2:20 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Marble statues of Socrates seated in thought and a standing Athena atop a tall column, set against a bright blue sky.

In 1989, the prize for Young European Film of the Year, awarded annually by the European Film Academy, went to a feature film about two young boys who escape from communist Poland to Denmark by hiding underneath a truck. The film, 300 Miles to Heaven , was based on a true story that had happened a few years earlier. The boys did not tell their parents anything. In a sense, their story was typical: Throughout the Cold War, thousands of people tried to flee East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslova

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