The Revolutions of 1989 continue: Egron Krenz, dictator of the communist Democratic Republic of (East) Germany opens the Berlin Wall, allowing East Germans to freely cross into the formerly isolated city of west Berlin.

       [restored 1/27/2023]

Subsequent Events:

11/10/1989                   1/15/1990                  3/18/1990

References:

CHRONOLOGY-Communism’s fall around eastern Europe – Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL10690064

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-timeline-of-a-year-of-wonder-when-unthinkable-became-the-unstoppable-9821984.html

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