It's become a normal part of our life. 33 years ago we were locked in the grip of a Cold War. Two great forces staring at each other. And yet on the Starship Enterprise you heard someone with a Russian accent. And today we have the space station 'Mir' on which you hear both Russian and English being spoken.
Amazing things can happen.
What seems like pure fiction to us today can in a mere three decades, maybe even less, turn into reality. Amazing things can happen. I never thought that in my lifetime I would see the Berlin wall come down. It was an impossible dream. People took death-defying risks to get across the wall.