"Director: Peter Molloy"

• The Lost World Of Communism | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £16.16   |  Saving you £3.83 (19.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Beginning in Hungary the retreat from communism picked up speed over the summer when the Poles won an overwhelming victory in free elections over their pro-Soviet rulers. In the fall East Germany and Czechoslovakia achieved freedom with surprisingly little violence. Only Romania at the end of the year witnessed a savage battle in the capital and the summary execution of the most notorious of Eastern Europe's dictators Nicolae Ceausescu.