15 January 1999 The year 1989 will be emblazoned in this century for the greatest outbreak of democracy the world has ever seen. It was a year of tumultuous social change, the shattering of paradigms, and the overthrow of the social order, as communist regimes toppled from Poland to Romania. It was the dissolution of an empire, though the Soviet […]
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