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Click on the dates below to trace the shifts in Europe's political geography
As the winds of democratic revolution sweep across Eastern Europe, communist rule crumbles in country after country.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 sees post-war divisions being dismantled physically and symbolically.
Finally the Soviet Union collapses in 1991.
The end of the Cold War is accompanied by a rising tide of nationalism that sees former republics and regions declaring their independence.
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