Challenge

In response to the Alexanderplatz Demonstrations, the GDR's political establishment was all but forced to reckon with the political challenge called for by demonstrators and attendees of the protest. 

This section highlights the haphazard process of that reaction:

Firstly, the dynamic contentious political model above grounds the increasing uncertainty leading to the night of 9 November, 1989.

As both sides challenged one another, both sides created further political uncertainty. This mutual uncertainty between a regime walling out Western influence and a citizenry exposed to Western influence through pirate-media resulted in a haphazard political reform process between 5 November and 9 November. So here, one finds that protest leads to challenge (28).

On 5 November, the Politburo of the GDR resigned en masse as direct response to calls made at the Alexanderplatz Demonstration by political opposition groups, dissonants, and the wider citizenry (29).

By 9 November, a right which had gone expressly unchallenged at the Alexanderplatz Demonstration - the right of transit- became a focal point for the GDR's government reform (30). Contextually, the GDR was losing citizens at an astounding rate to escape through other Communist aligned nations- specifically the Czeckoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) (31). Therefore, a plan was necessitated to ease both the internal strains of the nation as well as the external international pressures from neighboring nation-states and the Soviet Union which anchored the entire Communist bloc.

The timeline below indicates the haphazard political process used to pass transit reform intended for 10 November, 1989. In other words, it represents social challenge. The reactions of the GDR's government, therefore, are the set-up for collapse of the Berlin Wall.