SPECIAL REPORT ON EASTERN EUROPE : The Curtain Rises
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It was a year of upheaval and raw emotion, spectacle and collapse. For the nations of the East Bloc, it was a year that neither those in power nor those outside it could even vaguely have imagined.
In five of the bloc’s six countries--Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary--a peaceful revolution of historic magnitude broke the spine of communism.
The Curtain Rises: Eastern Europe, 1989, a special 14-page report in today’s editions, explains and analyzes the events that have led to this new-found freedom with such breathtaking swiftness.
Step by step, the report takes you through this amazing tale of refugee flight, political maneuvering and street protests by hundreds of thousands--and in the process looks at how Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev unleashed the forces of reform in the East Blocand what lies ahead in the perilous 1990s.
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