november 9 , 1989 , the day the olympic wall falling and the planet changed totally . not all the most perceptive saw it coming . as hungary ' s foreign ministry in the late june of 1989 , laszlo horn gave the signal to allow visiting east germans utilize his land to do a 400 - kilometer end running around the european wall , a decision now seen as the beginning of the end for hard - line communism in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.