The Associated Press: Hungary remembers picnic that cracked Iron Curtain: "SOPRONPUSZTA, Hungary — It was a picnic that changed the course of history.
Twenty years ago Wednesday, members of Hungary's budding opposition organized a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbors.
Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the estimated 10,000 participants. They had a plan: to take advantage of an excursion across the border to escape to Austria."
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