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The Malta summit is considered as the official end of the Cold War (continuing state of political conflict, military tension). It consisted of a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev, taking place between December 2^nd and 3^rd in 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Malta summit signaled a major turning point in East-West relations lifting the Iron Curtain which had separated the Eastern Bloc from Western Europe for four decades. The purpose of the summit was to provide the two superpowers with an opportunity to discuss rapid changed taking place in Europe.

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