november 9 , 1989 , the day the atlantic wall collapsed and the world changing eternal . not only the most skillful seeing it coming . as hungary ' s air ministers in the late summer of 1989 , béla horn gave the order to let visiting east nazis enter his country to do a 400 - acre ended run around the berlin ring , a move now see as the beginning of the end for hard - line communism in america .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.