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BUCHAREST, Romania — Vice President Joe Biden used a visit to Romania on Thursday to praise Eastern Europe for all that has been accomplished in the 20 years since the Iron Curtain fell and to challenge the countries of the region to serve as models for other emerging democracies.
In a speech at the restored Central University Library, where a raging fire set during Romania’s 1989 revolution destroyed 500,000 books, Biden paid tribute to “freedom’s defenders” who were killed. He called the liberation of the old Eastern bloc “one of the greatest achievement in modern history.”
