9th November 1989: when the DDR opened the Berlin Wall
In the evening of the 9th November 1989, the East German government opened the Berlin Wall after central committee spokesman Guenter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross into West Berlin with immediate effect.
[…] 1990 the Iron Curtain was in tatters. The Berlin Wall had fallen in November the previous year, and the communist governments of other eastern European countries had fallen. McDonald’s had […]