It was called the 'picnic that changed the world' and visitors to Sopron, Hungary are here to celebrate the 25th anniversary.
On August 19th 1989, the border with Austria was opened up allowing more than 600 East Germans under Communist rule to flee to the West.
"The events brought Germany and Hungary together in 1989," said euronews correspondent Attila Magyar reporting from the picnic, "because it was the beginning of the end of the Iron Curtain in Europe. Nowadays relations between the Wes…
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