Monday demonstrations in Leipzig
1989 · Event
Weekly mass protests in East German cities; tens of thousands chant 'Wir sind das Volk' and erode the regime's authority.
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- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
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- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)
- Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet) (1994)