19 August 2023

The Picnic That Broke the Berlin Wall

The end of the Soviet Union began on this date 34 years ago, far from Berlin or Moscow.

(From 2021) A few days ago was the 60th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. But let's instead celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the event that made its fall inevitable: the Pan-European Picnic on the Austro-Hungarian border.

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