Events Being Held To Mark Day That Iron Curtain Began To Rip - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009: "Twenty years ago, on August 19, 1989, it was the site of a 'Pan-European Picnic' organized by the Hungarian opposition.
Under the spirit of glasnost introduced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, both Hungary and Austria had agreed to open their common border at Sopron for three hours on that day, to allow an orderly exchange of greetings between the local populations on both sides of the frontier."
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