Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1989, rashin jin daɗin jama'a na jama'a da siyasa ya kifar da gwamnatocin Kwaminisanci na ƙasashen Yarjejeniyar Warsaw. Farkon ƙarshen Yarjejeniyar Warsaw, ba tare da la'akari da ikon soja ba, shine Pan-European Picnic a watan Agusta 1989. Wannan taron, wanda ya koma wani ra'ayi na Otto von Habsburg, ya haifar da ƙauracewar jama'ar GDR da kuma jama'ar da ke cikin kafofin watsa labarai na Gabashin Turai sun ji asarar ikon shugabanninsu kuma Kayan ƙarfe ya rushe gaba ɗaya. Kodayake sabuwar gwamnatin Solidarity ta Poland a karkashin Lech Wałęsa da farko ta tabbatar wa Soviets cewa za ta ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin Yarjejeniyar, wannan ya karya sassan Gabashin Turai, wanda ba zai iya kasancewa tare da Warsaw Pact ba. 'Yancin kasa na kasa wanda ya yiwu tare da manufofin "perestroika" da "glasnost" ya haifar da rushewar hukumomi na gwamnatin kwaminisanci a cikin USSR a 1991. Daga shekara ta 1989 zuwa 1991, an kifar da gwamnatocin Kwaminisanci a Albania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
, Jamus ta Gabas, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, da Tarayyar Soviet.