The Communist country (Soviet Union-> Russia) and and Democratic (France, America, Britain )
The Hungary government took down the barbed wire on its border with Austria and the West.
But the Soviet Union didn't response. Although travel was still not completely free,
The Iron Curtain was starting to unravel. The Berlin Wall in 1989, came down.
This Wall is also know as the symbol of a cold war which divided the Germany in to West and East. Many of the Soviet
Many of the Soviet republics had declared their independence.
Free election held in Poland in June 1989 were won by Solidarity, originally a banned trade union
Lech Walesa became the first non-communist president of Poland
Lastly, after the Berlin Wall had collapsed and every Soviet republic declared their independence.