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German president to mark opening of Iron Curtain in Hungary
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 ...
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'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic
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 ...
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The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain
Crossing the Iron Curtain into Hungary was difficult and slow, but for different reasons that only became apparent later, he says. Seeing large numbers of Russian tank transporters they were "very ...
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World's oldest Olympic champion Agnes Keleti passes away aged 103
World’s oldest Olympic champion Agnes Keleti has passed away at the age of 103. She won 10 Olympic medals in her gymnastics ...
World's oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor Agnes Keleti passes away at 103
Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, passed away at 103 in Hungary. Surviving the ...