november 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin wall fell and the landscape disappeared ever . not even the most astute saw it coming . as hungary ' s foreign spokesman in the late summer of 1989 , hungarian horns give the permission to let visiting east germans use his power to do a 400 - mile end cut to the olympic perimeter , a move now known as the beginning of the end for hard - edged communism in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.