A man stands atop a statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin after it was removed from its pedestal in Bucharest on March 5, 1990.
November 05, 2009
Some were peaceful and some were violent. Some were popular revolts and some were orchestrated within the Communist Party leadership. The revolutions of 1989 cast aside Europe's Cold War dictators, paving the way for democracy and the free-market reforms of the 1990s.
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