Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Canji mai mahimmanci a cikin manufofin Soviet zuwa ga ƙasashen Gabashin Gabas a ƙarƙashin Mikhail Gorbachev a ƙarshen 1980s shine farkon fara zanga-zangar da aka yi a kan Jam'iyyar Socialist Unity Party, wanda ya yi mulkin Jamus ta Gabas tun lokacin da aka kafa kasar a ranar 7 ga Oktoba 1949. Tashin hankalin da ya gabata <unk> Gabashin Jamus (1953)
, Czechoslovakia (1953), Poland (1956), Hungary (1956) da kuma Prague Spring (1968) <unk> Sojojin Soviet sun ci su da ƙarfi. Amsar Soviet ga rikicin Poland na 1980-1981 ya riga ya kasance na rashin sa baki.