Celebrations by winning sides are such fun. At last month's opening of the Allied Museum in Berlin, veterans of the cold war did the diplomatic equivalent of a team kiss-in by the corner flag. Soldiers and politicians from Britain, France and the United States, whose forces occupied the western half of the city from the end of the second world war until 1994, preened themselves amid grateful tributes from that conflict's loser-winners, the Germans. The winner-losers, the Russians, were not invited, appearing only as sinister plywood cut-outs in one of the exhibition halls; east Berliners were all but invisible.
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