political ideologies, and a terrible national defeat and failure, preserved in stasis for an entire generation.  It overshadowed a lost Cold War era of painful debate and broken introspection.  With time, novels like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) and its masterful 1965 film version  (including a critical scene at the Wall) demonstrated that that pain extended throughout the western world, perpetuating an unspoken but deep-seated