First Iron Curtain breach was to test Soviet reaction < German news | Expatica Germany: "Sopron -- The man who set off events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago by briefly opening Hungary's border with Austria was unsure whether Soviet troops would intervene, he said Tuesday.
Former Hungarian premier Miklos Nemeth said that at the time he did not know whether to believe a promise from then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that there would be no repeat of the bloody suppression of Hungary's 1956 uprising."
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