Summary
Oh, and yes, everyone must give up their East German identity card when they leave, poor things. [...] the regime's front door remained locked. In partly free elections in Poland in June - the same weekend as the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing - the independent Solidarity movement defeated the Communists so overwhelmingly that the humiliated regime had no alternative but to bow to demands for a non-Communist prime minister.
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'Now We Knew That There Was No Going Back'
It was the most dramatic moment in an extraordinarily dramaticyear. All across eastern Europe, one-party regimes collapsed in a heap. But nothing could trump the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of 9 November 1989. Television viewers around the world were transfixed as the loathed symbol of a divided continent broke open. Following a confused, partly unintended announcement at an official press conference, East Berliners poured thro...
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