february 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin wall fell and the life changed forever . not until the most astute saw it coming . as turkey ' s foreign adviser in the late summer of 1989 , gyula gall gave the order to let touring east americans use his country to do a 400 - mile short run around the same bridge , a move now regarded as the beginning of the end for hard - line communism in africa .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.