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Eastern Europe
 The Berlin Wall was
a security wall that
formed part of the
inter-German
border from August
13, 1961 to November
9, 1989.

 C o ld W a r
The indirect conflict between the United
States and the Soviet Union

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World War II
The end of the
 Error committed by leaders that led to a
crisis in what was then the USSR
Leonid Brézhnev Mistakes
“An authoritarian leader that Were excessive spending on
took his country to the cusp of arms and intervention,
power and economic influence” corruption and an increasingly
but due to his indecisive and inefficient and bureaucratic
megalomaniac leadership it Soviet system were just some
took his country to the brink of of the factors that arose in this
economic collapse too. time of economic standstill.

Yuri Andropov Konstantin Cherenkov

To make it simple and brief
his fragile health kept him He directed an

away from the needed educational reform and

political activity he needed to
do but anyways his
government only prolonged
the economic standstill that
was headed toward decline.
various adiustments in
the bureaucratic
structure of the state.

Mijail Gorbachov
His politics were founded on two great
pillars called Perestroika and Glasnos.
One proposed the restructuring of the
economy and the other one was more an
about a free political system.
The Soviet Union kept declining which
caused the countries of the Communist
Bloc started to show discontent.
Domino effect
Poland
In Poland a series of strikes and civil movements began to
put pressure on the need for political change. This is
known as the “domino effect”.

Solidarity
The principal promoting organism of these movements
would come to be called Solidarity, and its leader
was Lech Walesa.

Events
These events were followed by others considered
similar in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and
Eastern Germany.

New routes to German government initially On the 9th of November, 1989, amidst
a series of peaceful protests, the
escape to the responded with a series of Eastern German government officially
East. measures to detain this announced that the citizens of Berlin
immigration could travel between the east and
west without any major problems.

Fall of Berlin Wall

Socialist block
People currently suffer in some way a
great discontent because today they
continue to have great economic crises.

Conclusion
Honestly, from my point of view, the errors
caused could be said to be due to the bad
decisions made by the socialist leaders of
those times, even the situation is part of
those facts since, as we mentioned, there
was no luck for being able to do something
in a concrete and sensible way.

By Dariana Valentina Charles

Cedeño.
Thank You
for listening!