Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muna 1989, kusagutsikana kwevoruzhinji uye kwezvematongerwe enyika kwakaparadza hurumende dzechiKomonisiti dzenyika dzeWarsaw Treaty. Kutanga kwokuguma kweWarsaw Pact, pasinei zvapo nesimba rehondo, kwakanga kuri Pan-European Picnic muna August 1989. Chiitiko chacho, icho chinodzokera shure kune pfungwa yaOtto von Habsburg, chakakonzera kubuda kukuru kwevagari veGDR uye vagari veEastern Europe vaiziviswa nevezvenhau vakanzwa kurasikirwa kwesimba revatongi vavo uye Iron Curtain yakaputsika zvachose. Kunyange zvazvo hurumende itsva yeSolidarity yePoland inotungamirirwa naLech Wałęsa pakutanga yakavimbisa maSoviet kuti yaizoramba iri muChibvumirano, izvi zvakaputsa mabhureki eEastern Europe, ayo akanga asingachakwanisi kubatana pamwe chete nemauto neChibvumirano cheWarsaw. Zvematongerwe enyika akazvimiririra akaita kuti zviitike nemitemo ye"perestroika" ne"glasnost" yakakonzera kuparara kwehurumende yeCommunist muUSSR muna 1991. Kubva muna 1989 kusvika muna 1991, hurumende dzechiKomonisiti dzakaparadzwa muAlbania, Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, uye Soviet Union.