At the beginning of the 1980’s the winds of change
began to sweep across Europe.
After the “Solidarnosc” movement in Poland, followed
by the Russian “Perestroika”, the singing revolution
in the Baltic States, the opening of the Hungarian
borders, the peaceful revolution in Eastern Germany
and the dramatic revolution against the dictatorship
in Romania, Europeans stood up for their rights and
initiated the downfall of Communist totalitarianism
in Europe. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the
breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 were the
two major turning points of European history that
symbolized the times of change.
Today young Europeans should understand how much
the years of change between 1980 and 1991 affected
and still affect themselves and the lives in their
families and communities.

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