Falling Like It's 1989

Maybe history didn't end in 1989, but the world would certainly never be the same. From Berlin, to Beijing, to Burma, here are some of the most memorable images from a "year of miracles." Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

BY JORDANA TIMERMAN | NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The End of History: 1989 is a year of iconic images, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Tiananmen Square crackdown. A Soviet observer at the time noted an impression of general collapse, while other countries saw the year's events as part of the struggle for democracy. In hindsight, the wall seems to have fallen in a day, but a dizzyingly paced year shows that many symbolic moments led up to the wall's fall. Above, East Berliners perch on the wall, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background, on Nov. 11, 1989.

GERARD MALIE/AFP/Getty Images

 

Jordana Timerman is a researcher at Foreign Policy.

 

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The struggle for democracy in other countries as part of the year's event saw the time a Soviet observer noted an impression of the general collapse. Travel in the day the wall fell, but the display shows that the most symbolic moment in a dizzyingly brisk fall up the walls took.
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