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Hungary: 20 Years Since the Pan-European Picnic

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics, Protest

Hungarian Spectrum writes [1] about the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, which was “held on a field in the middle of nowhere on the Austro-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989″: “A memorial park now commemorates the event that allowed about 600 East Germans to cross into Austria and to freedom while the Hungarian border guards looked on.”