After the Revolutions Change_of_leadership of 1989 , 23 August has become Becoming an official remembrance day both in the Baltic countries , in the European Union and in other countries , known as the Black Ribbon Day or as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism .

The Revolutions of 1989 formed Creating part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in Causation the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond .

The period is sometimes called Name_conferral the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Nations , a play on the term Spring of Nations that is sometimes used to describe the Revolutions of 1848 .