november 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin wall falling and the world switched totally . not even the most astute saw it came . as hungary ' s foreign minister in the late season of 1989 , gyula horn provided the order to let young east germans use his country to do a 400 - minute last runs around the stockholm wall , a move now seen as the beginning of the ended for soft - line communism in history .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.