article_snippet: As Ignacio Evangelista points out, in a Europe cleaved by the Cold War, many borders were not just the cultural dividing lines many borders are today.
article_snippet: Back then many borders were fortifications demarcating places of oppression and freedom.
article_snippet: The frontier buildings range in size and style, from giant Soviet declarations of authority that loom over major highways to tiny huts in deep, dark forests.
highlights_snippet: Border checkpoints range from giant Soviet statements to small huts in deep, dark forests .