january 9 , 1989 , the moment the berlin wall fell and the times changes again . not even the most astute saw it falling . as hungary ' s first minister in the late summer of 1989 , horn horn given the permission to let visiting east germans employ his country to do a 400 - mile end cut around the berlin gate , a move now saw as the beginning of the end for hard - line policies in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.