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November 9, 1989 FELL THE BERLIN WALL!

In the 80's the communist bloc was undergoing a serious economic and social crisis, and only because of political repression was achieved maintain order in the Soviet Union and satellite countries of Eastern Europe (including the RDA ), but in the late 80's and thanks to the new policy of openness the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (Perestroika ) the repressive control was relaxed.

satirical Graffiti on the western wall, symbolizing the alliance between RDA (Honecker) and the USSR (Brezhnev) (obtained from lavidaenlila.files.wordpress.com)

OPENS THE WALL !

the late 80's discontent in the GDR was general and had continued protests and demonstrations. Many young people fled westward via Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Then, with great surprise on 9 November 1989 the government of the GDR said open border crossings to cross RFA and the desire for freedom did the rest.

the German East and West peacefully took to the wall (obtained from nocaptionneeded.com)

immediately erupted impromptu mass movement that took peacefully to assault the wall, thousands of people climbed the more than 3 meters , crossed the mythical west to visit their shops, while others Berlin, armed with picks and hammers began to destroy , given the inaction of the government of the GDR and especially the Soviet Union , perhaps to avoid it took place a new bloodbath like the one in Tiananmen Square (China .)

destroying the wall with the passivity of the soldiers (obtained from vuelosberlin.org)

NO WALL, FAREWELL TO COMMUNISM

The fall of the Berlin Wall and back reunification of Germany (1990) put the lace to the communist bloc collapsed shortly ( the USSR disappeared in 1991), except for isolated cases as China, Cuba and Korea North. Thus, in a bipolar world is moving into a new stage (e he new world order ) characterized by the predominance of multilateralism (higher prevalence of UN and economic and political associations as Union European ) and later in the century, marked by Jihadist terrorism following the attacks on the Twin Towers of 11/09/2001.