The year 1989 was pivotal for communism: The Berlin Wall came down. "For 28 years, the Berlin Wall bottled up far more than the frustrations of 17 million East Germans. It held back the tides of a new Europe that was never allowed to emerge from the rubble of World War II. It froze in place the aberration of a divided Continent and guaranteed the implementation of socialism at bayonet point." The fall of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of the end of communism in many European countries. Rob Wood–Stansbury, Ronsaville, Wood Inc.
