One afternoon in 1989, 600 East Germans surged through the open Hungary-Austria border An innocent-sounding "Pan-European Picnic" in Hungary 30 years ago made the first rip in the Iron Curtain ...
a gathering at the Hungarian border in 1989 that set the stage for the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain, are taking place in Hungary on Monday. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is ...
Thousands of Soviet troops and officials were stationed in Hungary, and they were a drain ... less powerless to influence events behind the Iron Curtain.