why did berlin wall fall
Report Abuse. The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be a permanent fixture after 1961. However, on November 9th 1989, the impossible happened: the Berlin Wall opened. This triggered a chain reaction of events, throughout Europe and marked the beginning of the fall of the Soviet empire.est Answer: Because communism failed as a government. The berlin wall fell around in the 1980s but people say that communism started to crumble in the late 1970s, and russia just couldn't keep up its power in other countries like it use to.