Revolution was already in the air that winter ... of political obscurity in Slovakia and returned to Prague in November 1989.

[Tom Nichols: Stalin’s revenge] From a liberal point of view, comparing the anti-Soviet revolutions of 1989 with the illiberal revolutions today might seem scandalous. In Francis Fukuyama’s ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain which lifted communist rule across a swathe of Europe was as swift as it was unexpected. Click on the links below to watch and read about the main events in a dramatic and ...

Pitu spent six years investigating the 1989 revolution, which led to the fall of Ceausescu and the collapse of communism in Romania. He told DW that the same type of sound manipulation was ...