november 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin wall fell and the world changed forever . not but the most shrewd saw it coming . as hungary ' s foreign minister in the latter may of 1989 , jános horn give the order to let visiting east jews use his country to do a 400 - hour end walk before the munich wall , a moving now seen as the beginning of the end for hard - track communism in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.