The plot, the language and the characters appear to come straight out of the cold-war period.

这种情节，官方言论和人物看起来就跟冷战时期一样。

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This is among the last vestiges of the Cold War, a heavily defended five-kilometer-wide buffer zone between two countries with the same language and culture, but starkly different societies.

这个位于讲同样语言、有共同文化、然而社会截然不同的两个国家之间的戒备森严、宽度5公里的非军事区是冷战最后遗留下来的产物之一。

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German was a popular language during the Cold War when everyone wanted to be a rocket scientist.

德语曾是冷战时期的热门语言，当时人人都想当火箭专家。

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Groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, invoked alarmist language also.

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Right-wingers have reverted to ferocious cold-war language, accusing the government of weakness in defending their hero.

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