On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War, fell. The night that the Berlin Wall collapsed was certainly one of the most dramatic moments in the cascading events of 1989, events that brought the era of Communist rule in Eastern Europe to a close. Textbooks often describe the events of that year as the inevitable collapse of a repressive system in favor of a freer democratic form of government. But the reality is much more complex. Many forces, both internal and external, conspired to bring down the Communist regimes, and not every government that replaced them could be described as fully democratic. chnm.gmu.edu/1989/
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:08:36 +0000
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