Gorbachev und Trabant

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader for the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was later the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for contributing to the break-up of the USSR. Under Gorbachev is when the wall was torn down.

 

            The Trabant was a car constructed of recycled fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood. The Trabant was East Germany's answer to the VW Beetle, a "people's car,". Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire, when they ran at all, and often lacked even the most basic of things, like brake lights or turn signals. Thousands of East Germans drove their Trabants over the border when the Wall fell, which made it a kind of automotive liberator.