1989 Storytelling Exchange

2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of East Germany and other former Soviet-Bloc countries. These events, which contributed to the eventual collapse of the U.S.S.R., are viewed as having ushered in a new era in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. Yet the emergence of autocratic leaders and governments in Europe and elsewhere around the world over the last decade has prompted many analysts to raise concerns about the increasing fragility of democracy … and has mobilized citizens on behalf of its protection.