The Iron Curtain first opened with a picnic - Feature : Europe World

The Iron Curtain first opened with a picnic - Feature : Europe World: "Budapest - Twenty years ago, thousands gathered in a field near Sopron, on Hungary's border with Austria, for a 'Pan-European Picnic' to protest the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe for four decades. As Hungarian border guards turned a blind eye, on August 19, 1989, over 600 citizens of East Germany seized the opportunity to flee from the Communist East to the capitalist West."