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The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989
On 1 July 1989, 150 dancers set off on a demonstration for 'peace, love and pancakes'
On 18 October 1989, the East German communist leader, was forced from power.
The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991
In September 1991 the first heavy metal rock concert was held at a Moscow airfield.
In 1991, pro-independence Lithuanians took to the streets of Vilnius against Soviet tanks
Hear from two of the key players who brought to an end over 70 years of communism
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Georgia found itself on the verge of civil war.
How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.
In 1991, Yugoslav army tanks moved into Slovenia to try to stop it becoming independent
Why a Russian woman blurted out "We have no sex in the USSR" on international TV.
How conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed as a dog, attacking passers-by in Moscow.
The story of how the world was made safe from the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy
Aliona Doletskaya remembers starting post Soviet-Russia's biggest glossy fashion magazine
