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Winds of Change from the East: How Poland and Hungary Led the Way in 1989

Chernyayev, a close associate of then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, made a short and laconic entry into his diary on Nov. 10: "The Berlin Wall has collapsed. An epoch in the history of the 'socialist system' is coming to an end," Full Article at Spiegel Online

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  3. Helmut Kohl
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  6. Adam Michnik