Freedom, barriers and Eastern Europe

Can we still answer the questions those borders asked?

Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash

Traveling through Eastern Europe in 2019, we crossed from Austria into what used to be part of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR). We saw the Cold War remnants of barbed wire fencing, guard towers, strong posts, and a grassy corridor. Our driver informed us that this corridor had been patrolled to…