Europe DividedEurope Divided a game of an expansionist Europe, a resurgent Russia, and a new Cold War The end of the Cold War ushered in a new age of European expansion. Central and Eastern Europe had emerged from dictatorships and wanted to consolidate their democracies. They sought European integration to ensure they would not fall back into the Russian sphere of influence. Russia a shell of its former power as the Soviet Union could do nothing to slow the