Professor Dr. Ioannis Stefanidis

Diplomatic History Professor (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

”It means the first, and formative, three decades of my life, highlighted by films like Clint Eastwood’s Firefox, songs like ‘Back to the USSR’ and novels like The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Also, the memory of a friend from West Germany, who, as late as 1986, argued that the two Germanies would never unite: they had moved too far apart, he reasoned, they had become two different nations. Never say never again!”