Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - 1989 i kawe mai i te whakahekenga me te whakamātau ki te whakahekenga o te maha o ngā kāwanatanga i arahina e ngā rōpū Communist, pērā i Hungary, te Tiananmen Square whakaeke o 1989 i roto i China, te Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution"
, Ko te kawanatanga o Tiamana ki te Rawhiti o Erich Honecker, ko te kawanatanga o Poland e tautokohia ana e te Soviet, me te riri o te kawanatanga o Nicolae Ceaușescu i Romania. Ko te whakangaromanga o te 155km o te Taiepa o Berlin, i te mutunga o te tekau tau, i tohu i te huringa geopolitical nui. I mutu te Pakanga Makariri i nga tau moata o te 1990 me te angitu o te Whakauru o Tiamana me te matenga o te USSR i muri i te Puta o Akuhata 1991.