The Hungarian Picnic

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Recorded17 Aug 2011

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The picnic planned as a demonstration for European integration that ended with hundreds of East Germans escaping to the West through the Iron Curtain. We talk to one of the organisers of the picnic, on the border between Austria and Hungary in 1989, that prefigured the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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