This event marked the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a major turning point in world history, as it saw the end of a decades-long ideological struggle between the East and the West. The fall of communism in 1989 signaled the start of a new
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a wave of liberal democratic movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. The revolutions of 1989 were a key factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Union—one of the two superpowers—and abandonment of communist regimes in many parts of the world, some of which were violently overthrown. These events drastically altered the world's balance of power, marking the end of the Cold War and beginning of the post-Cold War era.