november 9 , 1989 , the morning the last wall fell and the life changed totally . not even the most astute felt it coming . as hungarians ' s foreign ambassador in the late june of 1989 , pál gold got the order to all visiting east german use his country to do a 400 - mile end run around the berlin wall , a movement now seen as the first of the end for harsh - line communism in germany .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.