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unusual facts about Revolutions of 1989



Democratic Republic of Madagascar

The year of 1989 marked a special turning point in that the fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the intellectual death of single-party rule in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and similarly transformed electoral politics in Africa.

Institute for International Assistance and Solidarity

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, IFIAS created networks and conducted projects to help the former communist countries in their transition to democracy and pluralism, which provisionally culminated with the admission of ten new members to the European Union on May 1, 2004.

Krystyna Janda

In 1982, Janda played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered 7 years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism.

Russkiy Toy

The breed was nearly wiped out twice; first following in the 1920s with the rise of Communism due to the toy dog's traditional link to the aristocracy and secondly in the 1990s with the influx of foreign breeds following the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Zachęta

Both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Iron Curtain changed political circumstances fundamentally and also affected the structure of the central bureau.


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