For too many years the Baltic Sea was a blind alley on the political map of Europe – divided by the Iron Curtain. It was not a “Sea of Peace” – as the communist propaganda tried to describe it – it was a Sea of Threats, a sea of insecurity and lost opportunities.
多年以来波罗的海地区就是欧洲政治地图上的一条死胡同—被“铁幕”分割开来。它不是共产主义的宣传中所称的“和平之海”，而是充满不安定和失落的机会的“威胁之海”。