VACLAV HAVEL 1 January 1990 'A contaminated moral environment' 1. Communism in Europe died in 1989 as one by one the Communist regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria collapsed. The year ended with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. It was the springtime of nations, the most exciting year in European history since 1848. The motto of the year was 'Truth shall prevail' and..