end of the Cold War, fall of the Berlin Wall from "summary" of The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew

The sudden collapse of the Communist government in East Germany and the subsequent opening of the Berlin Wall took the world by surprise. This event marked a significant turning point in the history of the Cold War, signaling the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the crumbling of the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe for decades, and paved the way for the reunification of Germany. The end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall were the culmination of a series of events that had been building for years. The Soviet Union, under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, had been undergoing significant political and economic reforms in an attempt to revitalize the stagnating Communist system. These reforms, known as perestroika and glasnost, opened up the Soviet Union to greater political and social freedoms, but also weakened the grip of the Communist Party on power. At the same time, popular discontent with the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe was growing. Countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia had already begun to push for greater political reforms, leading to the erosion of Soviet influen...

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The World Was Going Our Way

Christopher Andrew

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