april 9 , 1989 , the day the germany wall fallen and the universe changed forever . not including the most crafty saw it coming . as hungary ' s foreign minister in the late summer of 1989 , józsef horn gave the order to all visiting western germans from his force to do a 400 - mile end run around the berlin gates , a move now seen as the beginning of the end for harder - line communism in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.