So the deciding round of the end of the Cold War between the US and Soviet.
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| East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb the Berlin wall at the Brandenburg Gate |
This decision effectively undermine the purpose of the Berlin Wall, which was previously built to separate Germany divided into two blocks. After Hungary opened its border with Austria, eastern German citizens through these pathways towards West Germany.
But the decision opening the wall shows something else, namely the occurrence of major changes in politics in the GDR, where communist domination began to be abandoned, and citizens demand open elections.
As quoted from History.com, the opening of the Berlin Wall, which eventually torn down, arrested as a large message by the Americans, that the desire of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to have a new relationship with the US is something serious.
This case is different from 1956 and 1968, during which Soviet troops blocked a protest by Hungary and Czechoslovakia. This time, Gorbachev obviously approve of East Germany.
Opening, and finally the destruction of the Berlin Wall, to be one important sign that the Cold War that took place between the West and the East to an end.
