North Korea's got nukes. THey joined our exclusive club. That's really why we're so concerned. The cold war will be the biggest thing there. Now Evert is gonna go. his topic is the fall of communism. Poland Hungary East germany bulgaria and czechoslovakia were all involved with this. In APril 1989 Solidary was legalized again. Poland allowed voting and stuff again. Hungary was next to reverse communism in their country. In East Germany, everyone was going to West Germany through Hungary's border with Austria. In Czechoslovakia the Velvet Revolution was a non violent revolution in that country that overthrew the communist government. On November 28th the Communist Party announced it would dismantle. In Romania in 1989 Ceausescu was 71 and he was reelected to the communist party. In December their army mobilizes to take him down.
The Warsaw Pact, alliance between USSR and east europe, dissolved in Prague in 1991. Later that same month Gorbachev and Bush declared a US Soviet strategic partnership, decisively ending the cold war. Gorbachev screwed the economy with the old Soviet command structure completely breaking down. In 26 December 1991 the soviet union was officially done.
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