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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Spencer Churchill shared a vision during the dark days of World War II of a future in which democracy and freedom would flourish, goals enshrined in President Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Soon after victory, that vision was overshadowed when, in Churchill's words in 1946, an Iron Curtain descended across Europe, separating the free world from communism and beginning the Cold War. In 1961 the Berlin Wall became the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain, and its fall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War. At the center of Freedom Court, BreakFree, created from sections of the Berlin Wall by artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, shows human figures breaking free of symbolic barbed wire to express freedom's triumph over totalitarianism and embody the principles championed by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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