A few kilometers from Sopron's Fertőrákos, a village of three houses located on the last stretch of Magyar Puszta. From there, across the border There is Austria. In August 1989, right here, along the border between East and West ridge at the time, some citizens of the GDR, on holiday in Hungary, crossed the limes and fled to Austria, finally managing to leave their socialist fatherland, in short, to leave the cage. This happened during the famous Pan-European Picnic, organized by Hungarian and Austrian in order to celebrate the upcoming opening of borders and an end to the militarization of borders, typical of the Cold War. The picnic is considered one of the events of 89 and one of the pivotal moments that sanctioned the end of the Soviet bloc and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. How and why things went the picnic was so important to see the poteve here, here and finally here . Below, however, found some of my photos taken at the point where the East Germans crossed the border.
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