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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine December 24th 1989
THE YEAR THE WALLS CAME DOWN
It was a year, like 1789 and 1914, whose numerals will for ever evoke the ponderous closing of a door on one of history’s numberless rooms. Suddenly, nobody wanted to be a communist. All over Eastern Europe the people marched, and their governments capitulated. Robert Harris’s review of 1989 is on page 11.
Throughout the year the collapse quickened but it was, as we report on page 16, the breaching of the Berlin Wall, the most potent symbol of the Cold War, that set the seal on a momentous year.
The news elsewhere was not all good, as we show in our Pictures of the Year starting on page 20.
Human foibles, however, were well up to scratch: page 32.
Obituaries: page 37. Picture research by Vincent Page
A Life in the Day David Rowley-Healy, prisoner abroad
48 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. Lightly read and in good condition for age
