This Day in History: 1989

This Day in History takes us back to 1989, and the (figurative) fall of the Berlin Wall:

For more than two decades the Wall had divided Berlin, with movement between East and West virtually non-existant. Ostensibly built to protect East Berlin, it was denounced in the West as a totalitarian restriction on freedom of movement. It's fall would see the rapid entry of the former Soviet bloc into the world economy, with mixed results.