Collapse of COMMUNISM

Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union for many reasons. The collapse of Communism happened during the years of 1989-1991. It all started with President Mikhail Gorbachev not wanting to send more Russian soldiers. So after that little by little, the communist people started to lose their power. It also started to slowly collapse because of the reaction to NATO which was the warsaw pact. These countries started to not agree with communism and started converting into democratic countries. Soon after it was just a wave of reforms and democratic revolutions that soon led to the total collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall was sort of a symbol of communism so people that werent into communism anymore pressured East Germany to tear down the Berlin Wall. The Berlin wall was the "iron curtain" that separated the communist countries from the countries that didnt believe in communism. It also separated the countries that were involved in the Warsaw pact and NATO. After the demolishing of the Berlin wall, Germany became unified as one country. It was basically like a domino effect that this had on the other countries and in 1991, this was the official collapse of the communist revolution. The soviet union collapsed and was no longer known as the soviet union it was now known as Russia.