First the Berlin Wall came down, then Eastern European countries one by one left the shadow of "big brother" Russia, and the Warsaw Pact collapsed. In 1990 Germany was reunified, and in 1991 the USSR itself dissolved.
先是柏林圍牆垮下，東歐國家紛紛脫離蘇聯老大哥的陣營，華沙公約組織形同解體；一九九○年，兩德統一；九一年，蘇聯分崩離析。