The USSR's grasp on Eastern Europe weakens as the Berlin Wall comes down and the Communist Party mounts a coup against a prominent Soviet Union leader.
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Empire Is Untenable
season 1 episode 6
episode aired on march 2024
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- Self - Editor-in-Chief, Kyiv Independent
- Self - Deputy Chief Editor, Kyiv Independent
- Self - Prime Minister of Estonia
- Self - Russian Journalist
- Self - Author, Not One Inch
- Self - Editor, The New Yorker
- Self
- Self - West German Photographer
- Self - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991
- Self - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019
- Self - Ballet Dancer
- Self - Governing Mayor of West Berlin 1957 - 1966
- Self - President of the United States 1989 - 1993
- Self - Wife of Nicolae Ceausescu
- Self - Communist Leader of Romanian 1965 - 1989
- Self - Host of Tagesthemen
- Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1985 - 1991
- Self - Czech Playwright and Dissident
- Self - East German Leader 1971 - 1989
- Self - Communist Leader of Poland 1981 - 1989
- Self - President of the AFL-CIO 1979 - 1995
- Self - East German Leader October 1989 - December 1989
- Self - German Chancellor 2005 - 2021
- Self - President of the United States 1981 - 1989
- Self - GDR Government Spokesman
- Self - West German Federal Minister of the Interior 1989 - 1991
- Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979 - 1990
- Self - Union Leader
- Self - U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
- Self - Leader of China 1978 - 1989