19. August 1989 Paneuropäisches Picknick in Sopron
The Iron Curtain is becoming increasingly perforated Already on June 27, the two foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary symbolically cut through the border fence between their countries in a symbolic gesture. The next step in puncturing the Iron Curtain came on August 19, 1989. Initiated by the Paneuropean Union under the chairmanship of the…