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@Stratocaster
I was referring to early 90's Belfast.
The 'Liberated Areas' or 'No Go Zones' depending upon which foot you kicked with, would have been places like Ormeau Road and Bombay St. For them, if they could walk down The Falls once a week then everyone was supposedly safe in their beds, while a blind eye and a bit of 'spin' (what we know as lies but what becomes known as 'spin' when used by a western nation) was applied to other areas. Even more so places in Londonderry that I was fortunate enough never to have visited.
Roadblocks were just given different names like 'peace lines' and then everyone in Kensington and Islington were satisfied that they didn't exist and were happy never to go and check.
Meanwhile newspapers, one inparticular, thought it trendy to obscure the facts of one side, even when the city centre of said newspapers offices were blown to bits, it continued to pervert the situation, written by people who had never known the story, bought by people who would never know the problems, keeping them in their bubbles.
No one likes hearing anything crap said against their home nations, Americans, Chinese and most Europeans especially can't take a dose of opinion but sometimes you can't dress up the truth.
Im not having the everything's all rosy in the garden, we are a European utopia. They played that card in the 1990s too and I was only there a few weeks before I saw through it. As I said, even a trip to the fish and chip shop is an exercise in bullshit. They can't get along with each other, hence two world Wars, let alone importing more foreigners to find differences with.
Eastern Europeans seem to have their heads screwed on a bit tighter than their western cousins mind so this may not have been as evident on your European adventure, granted.
Watching from afar, it seems Europe is in a spot of bother at present.