How did Communists react to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

How did the Communists react to the fall of the Berlin Wall? In a variety of ways. The Communist-in-chief, Genosse Erich Honecker, suddenly found himself out of a steady job, and with a lot of angry East Germans who demanded answers. read more

The Fall of the Berlin Wall opened up new possibilities for socialism to achieve communism! The French Communist Party was more Stalinist compared to the Italians. Georges Marchais, the French Communist boss, had taken over his party about the time the Italians had started to break away from Soviet influence. read more

Although changes in the GDR leadership and encouraging speeches by Gorbachev about nonintervention in Eastern Europe boded well for reunification, the world was taken by surprise when, during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall—a barrier that for almost 30 years had symbolized the Cold War division of Europe. read more