In the Begining of 1989 the Communists were in full controll of Europe by the end
At the beginning of 1989 the Communists had been in complete control of Eastern Europe. Communism was a theoretical style of government, which was present in Russian and Eastern Europe for more then forty years. ... Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the last General-Secretary of the Communist party in 1989. ... Gorbachev used ‘perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’ to bring Eastern Europe into a democratic leadership. ... These two policies eventually lead to the revolution of 1989. In February 1989, the West saw the withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan, this action displayed that the USSR wanted to end military conflict. To show how much Gorbachev wanted to end the Arm Race (Cold War) he made a lot of influential visits to the West. ... What Gorbachev tried to do was to free Europe from the Communist hold and let Europe develop by it self. As quoted by Gorbachev “We are convinced that what they need is one Europe- peaceful and democratic, a Europe that maintains all it diversity and common humanistic ideas, a prosperous Europe that extends its hand to the rest of the world, a Europe that confidently advances into the future. It is in such a Europe that we visualize our own future” (Hawkes,1990, p 36) In December 1989 Gorbachev meet G. ... “Thought 1988 and 1989 Gorbachev gave frequent signals that he no longer wished to assert Russian control over so-called satellite States of Eastern Europe.” (Cowie 1996, p160) With the destruction of the Brezhnev doctrine, Eastern Europe was able to embrace democracy. In May 1989 Hungry opened its part of the Iron Curtin with Austria. ... So on Christmas Day 1989, Ceasusescu and Elena his wife were shot dead.