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The fall of Communism

How the Iron Curtain fell: Important dates

Politics

25.09.2009

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20 years since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc

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  • World War III almost started here
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  • Romania - Land of Opportunity?
  • The beginning of the end
  • The fall of the Soviet Silicon Valley
  • Restricted access - The Czech secret police files
  • Communist Bulgaria's off-limit luxury stores
  • Bulgarians break Communist culture of silence
  • Cycling the Iron Curtain
  • Romania's silent trauma
  • Hungary: 20 years after the fall of Communism
  • Poland: The uprising of December 1970
  • Poland: Life under Communism - A Special Debate
  • Poland: Remembering the victims of Communism
  • The Romanian revolution and the price of freedom
  • Poland: Talking to the opposition
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall on the silver screen
  • The Hungarian picnic that brought down the Iron Curtain
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  • Romania: Ceausescu’s execution – justice or murder?
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From our timeline, you can learn about the most important events leading up to the fall of the Iron Curtain. Click on the dates to learn more and use the zoom buttons or the scroll bar to increase or decrease the level of detail:

 

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