1980 Warsaw Poland saw the beginning of the Iron Curtain weakening. The growing dissent for the ruling Soviets, caused many countries in the Soviet bloc to rebel like the Solidarity movement in 1980. This led to the first partially free elections allowed in the Soviet bloc in June 1989.

Txt source: Rabel, Roberto. “The Fall of a Wall and Its Legacy.” New Zealand International Review, vol. 44, no. 6, Nov. 2019, p. 20. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=139853895&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Img source: Traynor, Kim. “Solidarity Memorial, Paris.” Wikimedia Commons, 1982, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solidarity_Memorial,_Paris.JPG.