但是，在共产主义垮台之后，欧洲的情形多多少少发生了一些逆转：对边界的防卫划分被在整个大陆消除国境所取代。
But after the implosion of communism, the situation in Europe was more or less reversed: the defensive demarcation of borders has been replaced by the removal of frontiers across the Continent.