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THE BIRTH OF ANOTHER COLD WAR AND TERRORISM:

Written by Lucas Anuforo  Email: peter.lemachi@yahoo.com Dublin, Ireland "God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the earth."...Pope Benedict XVI The period of 80s saw the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union army which was seen as one of the most dreaded and frustrating war ever fought by any nation in the 20th century. It created a stagnant economy as a result of huge budget spent on the war couple with its arm struggle with the United States this caused the Soviet to lose control in Eastern Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall between 1989 and 1990 was a beginning of a new dawn; borders were opened, free elections ousted all communist regimes in Eastern Europe. 1991 saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of its components into republics which witnessed the lift of the Iron curtain and finally mark the end of the cold war era. The tragedy of ...