Border guard's refusal to shoot let the Iron Curtain drop - The Globe and Mail: "Every few weeks, a retired Hungarian military officer named Bella Arpad walks across the unmarked stretch of road that separates the border and has a drink with the man who used to be the Austrian border guard, back when Europe had borders and guards.
They reminisce about the time, 20 years ago, when this now-invisible border was part of the Iron Curtain, and Mr. Arpad, one of thousands of men under orders to shoot anyone who crossed it, inadvertently helped it to collapse."
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