october 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin barriers fell and the world changes again . not yet the most acumen saw it arriving . as yugoslavia ' s finance ministry in the late summer of 1989 , gyula gold give the authority to let the east germans used his country to do a 400 - mile end race about the great wall , a switch now seen as the sign of the way for front - ground politics in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.