<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 , whereas the regimes in Romania and in some other countries inflicted violence on the population . The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 failed to stimulate major political changes in China , but influential images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to spark a precipitation of events in other parts of the globe . On the same day , 4 June , 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 dismantled its section of the physical Iron Curtain , leading to a mass 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 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 , whereas the regimes in Romania and in some other countries inflicted violence on the population . The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 failed to stimulate major political changes in China , but influential images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to spark a precipitation of events in other parts of the globe . On the same day , 4 June , 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 dismantled its section of the physical Iron Curtain , leading to a mass 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 1989 , which served as the symbolic gateway to German reunification in 1990 . </P>
what symbol of soviet repression and terror fell in berlin in 1989
what symbol of soviet repression and terror fell in berlin in 1989
the Berlin Wall
the Berlin Wall