The lack of democracy, economic backwardness and crisis in the Soviet republics eventually accelerated the crisis of socialism in the late 1980s. In 1989 the Berlin Wall falls and the two Germanys are reunited.
In the early 1990s, then-president of the Soviet Union Gorbachev began to accelerate the end of socialism in that country and its allies. With economic reforms, agreements with the US, and political changes, the system has been weakening. It was the end of a period of political, ideological and military clashes. Victorious capitalism was gradually being implanted in the socialist countries.