The place where the Iron Curtain first fell

In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives".
By Sofia Diogo Mateus

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• Sopron
• fence
• Hungary
• Hungary Austria
• Fall of the Iron Curtain
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• 1989

[SillyGrandpa]

The Iron Curtain first fell in Poland on June 04, 1989 with the first partially free elections whereby the communists were unanimously voted out of office. The first non-communist Prime Minister in the Soviet bloc, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was overwhelmingly elected. These events brought on the revolutions in Hungary, Czechoslovakia (Vaclav Havel/Velvet Revolution), the fall of the Berlin Wall and finally the execution of Ceaucescu in Romania on December 25, 1989.

[novocastrian666]

Very informative and interesting to see - thanks for showing this video.

[mgaved]

Very interesting information and well presented. Thanks very much.