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THE END IN EASTERN EUROPE 1989

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By the time the last decade of the 20th Century dawned on the horizon, what was popularly referred to as Eastern Europe (or 'The Soviet Bloc') was a very different place indeed. The Berlin Wall was history with the DDR soon to follow in its place. Most of the communist regimes in the area were either gone or about to become history, too. How did it all end? The Poles say it started long before the fall of the Berlin Wall ... with the strikes in Gdansk in the early 1980s and the imposition of martial law in Poland; the Hungarians say they brought it about when they not only refused to send back defecting East German vacationers, but tore down their part of the Iron Curtain on the Austiran border, thus allowing the captive peoples of Europe to flee to freedom; the East Germans say that were it not for the fall of the Wall, communism would still be the ruling force in the area; and the Russians say it would not have been possible without Gorbachev turning his face in the other direction when it was slapped by the non-conformists in the Ostblock.

This contemporary DVD discusses the fall of the masters in Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the USSR and how it came about. Was it as the Hungarians believe or the Poles assert; was it a combination of all of them; or was it none of it ... maybe the pressure of a US-dominated Cold War arms race? You decide!

Excellent film and sound quality.

206 minutes long.

REGION FREE

DVD-R IS IN GERMAN, NO SUBTITLES.

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