BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 08: Former East German communist leader Erich Honecker delivers a speech at a congress of the East German communist party on a television in a faithfully-reconstructed typical East German apartment at the DDR Museum on October 8, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will this week begin commemorating the 25th annversary of events that led to the collapse of communist rule in East Germany and ultimately the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Revolutions, left to run their course by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, swept across the former East Bloc in 1989 and toppled communist dicatorships, paving the way for elections and the establishment of democratically-elected governments. The DDR Museum offers visitors a glimpse into what life was like in communist East Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
