november 9 , 1989 , the days the berlin dam fell and the country changed forever . not even the most astute saw it coming . as turkey ' s foreign minister in the late summer of 1989 , lajos horn gave the order to let visiting austrian germany use his country to do a 400 - mile limit run under the berlin wall , a position now seen as the starting of the end for hard - line regimes in europe .
The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.