<P> The events of the full - blown revolution began in Poland in 1989 and continued in Hungary , East Germany , Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia and Romania . One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance , demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one - party rule and contributing to the pressure for change . Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country whose people overthrew its Communist regime violently . Protests in Tiananmen Square ( April to June 1989 ) failed to stimulate major political changes in China , but influential images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to precipitate events in other parts of the globe . On 4 June 1989 the trade union Solidarity won an overwhelming victory in a partially free election in Poland , leading to the peaceful fall of Communism in that country in the summer of 1989 . Hungary began ( June 1989 ) dismantling its section of the physical Iron Curtain , leading to a exodus of East Germans through Hungary , which destabilised East Germany . This led to mass demonstrations in cities such as Leipzig and subsequently to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 , which served as the symbolic gateway to German reunification in 1990 . </P>
<P> The events of the full - blown revolution began in Poland in 1989 and continued in Hungary , East Germany , Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia and Romania . One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance , demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one - party rule and contributing to the pressure for change . Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country whose people overthrew its Communist regime violently . Protests in Tiananmen Square ( April to June 1989 ) failed to stimulate major political changes in China , but influential images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to precipitate events in other parts of the globe . On 4 June 1989 the trade union Solidarity won an overwhelming victory in a partially free election in Poland , leading to the peaceful fall of Communism in that country in the summer of 1989 . Hungary began ( June 1989 ) dismantling its section of the physical Iron Curtain , leading to a exodus of East Germans through Hungary , which destabilised East Germany . This led to mass demonstrations in cities such as Leipzig and subsequently to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 , which served as the symbolic gateway to German reunification in 1990 . </P>
which eastern european nation was the first to reject communism
which eastern european nation was the first to reject communism
Poland
Poland