<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishHii inaweza kuwa sehemu ya kipande cha hadithi isiyo ya uwongo - moja ya barua za zamani za Letters from Europe ambazo zilikuwa zinachapishwa katika The New Yorker - na kwa kweli, katika masomo bora ya tabia, picha ya wazi ya Ulaya ya Vita Baridi - iliyoambukizwa na usemi wa kawaida, iliyokuwa imefungwa na mipaka bandia, iliyoishi na watu wasio na hisia na wasio na hisia - huanza kuunda.  <response>: This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape. 