During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
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It was "Trotsky" who welded the new Red Army into a disciplined fighting force, although his efforts would prove ultimately to be in vane since he was later persecuted for being a traitor to the state.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
