You are finding much more traffic between East and West, much more commonality. Ecological concerns and feminism are now spreading very fast in the Warsaw Pact countries, though not quite the same kind of feminism. All these things are shaking the ghost of the past. The ghost of the past is still hanging on to dear death, polluting the skies above us still. It is past the stage of telling people that nuclear war would be a bad thing.
People know that by now.
I think it has also exhausted the stage of excessive obsessional interest in nuclear weapons. Every part of Britain and probably every part of Canada has experts on nuclear Weapons who could answer back to the establishment. That is a very good thing. Nevertheless, the peace movement got hung up with nuclear weapons rather than with the actual politics of the Cold War which has moved very much forward on the agenda. People now are asking why there has to be a Cold War, and so both the old ghosts of Stalinism and the old very lively ghost of Atlantisism are under question.