march 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin center fell and the world changed permanently . not even the most astute saw it coming . as germany ' s foreign adviser in the late summer of 1989 , gyula band granted the order to help visiting north jews enter his country to do a 400 - mile long ran of the new wall , a move now seen as the mark of the end for hard - line communism in europa .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.