November 10th, 1989: the day when the “edifice of fear” turned into “a place of joy”.
The Berlin Wall was something of a propaganda disaster for the Soviet bloc as it showed the communists to be tyrannical in the way they controlled the movement of their people and their willingness to shoot at people they considered to be traitors. The fall of the Berlin Wall began the evening of 9th November and continued the following days and weeks.