Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet
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For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain
divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire
fences, ideologically, between communism and capitalism,
psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian
dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms,
and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still
fighting the cold war. At the start of 1989, ten European nations
were still Soviet vassal states. By the end of the year, one after
another, they had thrown off communism, declared national
independence, and embarked on the road to democracy. One of
history's most brutal empires was on its knees. Poets who had been
languishing in jails became vice presidents. When the Berlin Wall
fell on a chilly November night it seemed as though the open wounds
of the cruel twentieth century would at last begin to heal. The
Year of Revolutions appeared as a beacon of hope for oppressed
people elsewhere who dared to dream that they too could free
themselves. In a dizzying few months of almost entirely peaceful
revolutions the people's will triumphed over tyranny. An entire way
of life was swept away. Now, twenty years on, Victor Sebestyen
reassesses this decisive moment in modern history.
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