20 August 2009

Celebrating Hungary's Hole In The Iron Curtain.

GLOBAL POST.

In 1989..."Hungary had started dismantling parts of its western border fortifications that spring, sending shockwaves through the nations of the Eastern Bloc. Tens of thousands of East Germans — who could travel to Hungary without a visa — flooded into the country, hoping to find a clear path west without passing through the minefields and barbed wire separating their country from West Germany."