From the Velvet Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall: How 1989 became the year communism collapsed

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In Poland it took 10 years; in East Germany 10 weeks; in Czechoslovakia 10 days
It was 1989 and across eastern Europe communism was coming to an end
Thirty years on, Mick O'Hare looks at how we are still experiencing the fallout of that tumultuous year