AFP: European leaders mark 20 years since Iron Curtain breach: "SOPRON, Hungary — German Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked Hungary Wednesday for opening the Iron Curtain 20 years ago, allowing hundreds of East Germans to flee into democratic Europe.
Merkel, who spent most of her childhood and studied in communist East Germany, spoke at a commemoration near the Austro-Hungarian border area where East German refugees had been waiting for the moment to run to freedom on August 19, 1989."
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