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An apparently insignificant but epoch-making event took place 20 years ago on the Austro-Hungarian border. The Pan European Picnic, held on both sides of the Iron Curtain was organised by Walburga Habsburg Douglas who explains what it meant.
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E.U. countries remember the Pan European Picnic, one of the key events that led up to the Collapse of Communism, today. Twenty years ago a picnic on the Austro-Hungarian border led to an exodus of East Germans.
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The first rent in the Iron Curtain appeared exactly twenty years ago when Hungarian soldiers began to take down the system of barbed wire, electric fences and minefields now known as the “Iron Curtain.”
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