`` 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 : East-West divide was `` like a long , long overcast day '' Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev recognized system was `` clapped-out old car ''