january 9 , 1989 , the year the berlin line rose and the world disappeared forever . not even the most astute viewed it coming . as hungary ' s foreign minister in the early may of 1989 , gyula trumpet gave the order to had visiting east germany use his country to do a 400 - kilometres end marathon around the berlin wall , a motion now seen as the beginnings of the beginnings for hard - track politics in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.