The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Longo Matthew
The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Longo Matthew In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. Tacit…
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Longo Matthew
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain.
The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West.Drawing on dozens of original interviews--including Hungarian activists and border guards, East German refugees, Stasi secret police, and the last Communist prime minister of Hungary--Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents.
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