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The Hungarian Picnic

The picnic planned as a demonstration for European integration that ended with hundreds of East Germans escaping to the West through the Iron Curtain.

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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Sun 21 Aug 2011 22:50GMT

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  • Wed 17 Aug 2011 08:50GMT
  • Wed 17 Aug 2011 12:50GMT
  • Wed 17 Aug 2011 21:50GMT
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  • Sun 21 Aug 2011 11:50GMT
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