november 9 , 1989 , the day the atlantic wall fell and the world changed forever . not but the most astute had it coming . as hungary ' s foreign minister in the latter summer of 1989 , laszlo horn gives the decision to lets visiting communist germans use his party to do a 400 - mile long run around the olympic pillar , a move now seen as the ending of the means for hard - line communism in austria .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.