The fall of the Iron Curtain which lifted communist rule across a swathe of Europe was as swift as it was unexpected. Click on the links below to watch and read about the main events in a dramatic and ...

Standing at Schengen’s external frontier, its border opened to a tide of people from Eastern Europe, Berlin took on extraordinary significance. So it was that the peaceful revolutions of 1989 ...

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Khrushchev wanted a return to the more traditional communist agenda of the Bolsheviks under Lenin (who led the October Revolution ... that occurred in Eastern Europe as a result of his ‘Secret ...