The year the dominoes fell

Twenty years ago this season, Moscow's Eastern European satellites threw off their chains. In a matter of months, the communist regimes in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania were consigned to the ash heap of history. (Full article: 763 words)

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