Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union. The USSR was in crisis, there were no ideas of change.
Perestroika programme is introduced and allows market prices to be introduced into the Soviet economy. It was no longer illegal to sell or buy for profit.There were new airs of changes
USSR and the USA sign a treaty to remove their missiles from Europe.
There started being revolts inside the Soviet Union and in the countries dominated by this communist regime.
Hungarian people dismantle a fence between Austria, which was a capitalist country, and themselves.
In Poland free elections are held for the frist time since the World War II. Solidarity won.
Thousands of East Germans who were vacationing in Chezcoslovakia and Hungary escape through Austria into West Germany.
About 70,000 people walk through the city centre of Leipzig on Oct. 9, 1989, during one of the so-called Monday demonstrations against the East German Communist regime while Gorbachev visited the country.
Thousands of germans march agains the berlin wall, where the guards throw their weapons and join the crowds. The berlin wall is dismantled.
There are huge demonstrations in Czechoslovakia, the Czech government opens its borders with the west and allows the formation of other parties.
In Romania there is a short but bloody revolution that ends with the execution of Romania´s communist leader Ceausescu.
The communist party in Hungary renames itself the socialist party and declares that free elections will be held.
Gorbachev visited the baltic state of lithuania... they wanted independence and be part of capitalism.
Latvia leads the Baltic States to declare independent from the USSR.
The Russian Republic , the largest within the USSR, elected Boris Yeltsin as president. He thought that the Soviet Union did not had future so he wanted to turn them into independent states.
Ukraine declared its independence. Other republics followed.
Germany became a united country once again.
Events in lithuania turned to bloodshed as soviet troops fired on protesters.
The republic of Georgia declared its independence.
Hardline communist party members and leading military officers attempted a coup to take over the USSR.
Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union.
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