Richard Blystone was CNN 's senior correspondent in Europe throughout 1989 , witnessing and reporting on the momentous events of that year from the first protests in the communist Eastern Bloc to the fall of the Berlin Wall and revolution in Romania . `` Iron Curtain '' dividing Europe felt permanent to those who grew up after WWII . Former senior correspondent Richard Blystone covered momentous events of 1989 . Blystone : " The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
`` Iron Curtain '' dividing Europe felt permanent to those who grew up after WWII . Former senior correspondent Richard Blystone covered momentous events of 1989 . Blystone : " The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.