 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Mukushanduka kwe1989, mazhinji ematunhu eMarxist-Leninist eCentral neEastern Europe akabata sarudzo dzemapato mazhinji dzakaguma neshanduko yehurumende. Munyika zhinjisa, dzakadai sePoland neHungary, ikoku kwakasvikwa nenzira yorugare, asi muRomania chinjo yacho yakashanduka kuva yechisimbauye zvakatungamirira kukudzingwa nokutongwa kwaCeaușescu. Gorbachev akanga akabatikana zvikuru nezvinetso zvomumba zvokusateerera zvikuru zviitiko izvi. Akatenda kuti sarudzo dzedemokrasi dzaisazotungamirira nyika dzokuEastern Europe kuti dzisiye kuzvipira kwadzo kuhurumende yezvematongerwe enyika. Muna 1989, akashanyira East Germany nokuda kwegore rechimakumi mana rokutanga kwayo; nokukurumidza pashure pacho, muna November, hurumende yeEast Germany yakabvumira vagari vayo kuyambuka Rusvingo rweBerlin, chisarudzo Gorbachev akarumbidza. Mumakore akatevera, chikamu chikuru chorusvingo chakaparadzwa. Gorbachev kana Thatcher kana Mitterrand vakanga vasingadi kubatanazve nokukurumidza kweGermany, vachiziva kuti zvimwe yaizova simba guru reEurope. Gorbachev aida muitiro unofambira mberi wokubatanidzwa kweGermany asi Kohl akavamba kudana nokuda kwokubatanidzwazve nokukurumidza. Nokubatanidzwazve kweGermany, vacherekedzi vakawanda vakataura kuti Hondo Yemashoko yakanga yapera. 