'A revolution without a revolution'

Even looking back after 20 years at the collapse of the Berlin Wall - and by extension, the collapse of Soviet communism - it's hard to wrap your mind around the enormity of the change that swept through Eastern Europe.

I've seen plenty of articles recently that attempt to put things in perspective, but this piece by Der Spiegel strikes me as being particularly good. I'm about half-way through, but it drives home how the real revolution took place not in Berlin, but elsewhere in Poland, Hungary and Moscow.

It's not short, but definitely worth a read.


(Image from Europa.eu)