Abstract
We often come across the opinion that November 1989 was simply the result of the changes that occurred at the international level. Furthermore, it is also fashionable to argue that freedom has fallen to us from the other, without our being almost aware of it and without our contribution.
Leaving aside the questionable mental construction of the reasoning according to which freedom should be "deserved", the author try to retrace the conditions prior to the decisive date of November 17, 1989, or try to answer the question: what impact did external and internal factors have on change?