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George Soros and the Fall of Communism in Europe

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  • November 2019

George Soros, the chair and the founder of the Open Society Foundations, established his global reputation as a philanthropist amid the dramatic transformation of Eastern and Central Europe that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

This publication offers further details on the unique role Soros played and how he used his fortune to allay the pain of economic disruption that came with the collapse of the Communist system while also helping to lay the foundations for an inclusive vision of democracy.

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States of Change: Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Thirty years after the Berlin Wall’s collapse, a YouGov survey finds a high-level of anxiety in Central and Eastern Europe over the future of democracy, but a continued faith in the freedoms achieved with the end of Communism.

November 2019

Remembering 1989 In Depth

After the Wall Came Down

An older man standing in a crowd holding two fingers in the air

It’s been 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, inspiring a democratic awakening throughout Central and Eastern Europe. What lessons does the Cold War’s end offer for the next generation of reformers?

October 31, 2019 | Tim Judah

The Legacy of 1989

George Soros on Europe after the Berlin Wall

Soldiers standing behind a fallen section of the Berlin Wall

Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, Open Society Foundations Founder and Chair George Soros looks back at his support for Central and Eastern European democracy, which began when few imagined the fall of the Iron Curtain.

October 31, 2019

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