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Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world - BBC News

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The wave of revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe helped shape the continent for decades to come.

Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world 5 November 2019 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Getty Images World events often move fast, but it is hard to match the pace and power of change in 1989. It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet-led communist bloc teetering on the brink of collapse and helped define a new world order. How did the Wall come down? It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a

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