I grew up in a Europe of competing certainties. One imagined that we would forever teeter on the edge of nuclear conflagration with the Soviet Union. The other that, if only we could avoid mutually assured destruction, democracy and the market would underwrite prosperity. Each generation would be richer than the last.
我成长于一个两种相互矛盾的“必然性”同时存在的欧洲。一种必然性预测，我们将永远处于同苏联展开核大战的临战状态。另一种认为，只要我们能避免“相互确保摧毁”，民主和市场将带来繁荣。每一代人都会比上一代更富有。
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