How a picnic led to the fall of the Berlin Wall

Full story: Christian Science Monitor

These days, cars whiz through the abandoned border-control stations in the hills separating this Hungarian city from the villages and vineyards of Eastern Austria. Crossing the old Iron Curtain is much the same as traveling between US states: no fences, no guards, just a welcome sign. Twenty years ago today, the militarized barrier between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and the democracies of the West met its end when Hungary's reform Communist government announced it would open its borders, allowing tens of thousands of East Germans to escape into Austria.

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Corry bacsi

Solymár, Hungary

I remember the time, I hated the communists, and wished the new free elections, and hoped that the thing will get better.

But on the other hand I found as a brave step what the border guards, and the communist PM, did at that time. There were the soviet troops at that time.

But now what I could read recently is more than interesting:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c713ea2-9d7e-11de-...

Instead of commenting this I would like to express my respect for Mr. Gorbachev, to our former PM. Miklós Németh and also the border guards.

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