The picnic that brought down the Berlin Wall -- latimes.com

The picnic that brought down the Berlin Wall -- latimes.com: "The date was Aug. 19. The place: Sopron, a sleepy provincial town in western Hungary. Even in such a backwater, the winds of change were blowing. In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev was at work, shaking up the old Soviet sphere. In Poland, the famous trade union known as Solidarity faced off against its communist masters."