List of 1989 articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Best of ArabLeaks
Just how much did these cables change the world?
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558193_execution_of_king_louis_xvi2.jpg Why We Can’t Rule Out an Egyptian Reign of Terror
A historian's look at revolution and its discontents.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Russians Return
Russia's back in Afghanistan, this time in cooperation with the West -- but do objectives really align?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe After the Berlin Wall: 4 Surprises
For Europe the effects of the Berlin Wall's collapse were almost as surprising as the fall itself. Here are 4 of the unexpected consequences that the end of the Soviet Union had for Europe -- ones even the experts didn't see coming.
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CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images The Rift that Began in Tiananmen Square
When Deng Xiaoping met with Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1989, neither communist leader could have predicted that the events simultaneously transpiring in Tiananmen Square would ricochet around the world -- all the way to the Berlin Wall.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Memory Trap
Why remembrance of past imperial glory holds back Russia today. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images Who Brought Down the Berlin Wall?
Reagan? Economics? The CIA? Why the usual suspects get too much credit. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Myth of Deutschland Über Alles
When the Berlin Wall came down, the world cheered -- and the West Germans sipped lattes. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 1989: The Lost Year
For Gorbachev and Bush Sr., it was 12 months of missed opportunities. The first in an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
