Fault lines

In today’s episode, you heard that the Berlin Wall symbolized the fault line between the Soviet Union and its other World War II allies, France, the US, and the UK. A fault line (technically) is a big crack in the earth. Metaphorically, it symbolizes a serious and permanent division between two sides. Fault lines opened up between the Soviet Union and the US, UK, and France. Some think that today new fault lines are opening up between the far right and far left in Europe and around the world.