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Losing Soviet control over eastern Europe – video documentary
These three videos present the events that led to the end of communism in the Eastern Bloc.
PART 1 – Gorbachev, the attitude of Honecker, Hungary 1989, Poland 1989, Warsaw Pact Summit 1989, the economic and political situation in East Germany, the crossing of East Germans through Hungary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGjJcl3GDw
PART 2 – East Germany’s 40th anniversay demonstration, fall of Honecker, fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEC3m1wULE
PART 3 – Uprising in Romania leading to the end of Ceausescu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFrA9Ga0Mwo

The overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989
On the 22nd December 1989, Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown.

The creation of the Triple Alliance: an overview
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.