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The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989.
The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European Picnic, saw the border gate symbolically opened for three hours.
It happened on the road from Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland (Austria) to Sopronkőhida (Hungary).
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Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
- published: 21 Oct 2009
- views: 19141
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
- published: 21 Oct 2009
- views: 6677
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories.
August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape to the West. The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border on 19th August, gave many the chance to turn a dream into reality. Dietmar Poguntke, who was 26 at the time, was one of many East Germans who traveled to the friendly communist countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Poguntke and around 700 others managed to cross over when the border gates dividing East and West were opened for a few hours during the Picnic. [Dietmar Poguntke, Former East German Refugee]: "I crossed through a hole and there was this Austrian who said: 'Welcome to freedom', holding a piece of barbed wire like a rose. I couldn't believe it. In my mind I was expecting a first wall, then a second wall, a third one - like here. But he said: 'You are already in Austria!' I told him: 'No way'." The refugees hadn't expected crossing the border to be this easy. And the Hungarian border guards stationed there didn't shoot. The picnic was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration, highlighting the division of Europe. But then guards began sporadically opening and closing the border. Gerd Vehres experienced the Pan-European Picnic in a very different way. Twenty years ago, he was the East German Ambassador to Hungary. At the time, no one expected the Berlin Wall to fall just three months later. [Gerd Vehres, Former East German Ambassador to Hungary]: "I knew that an era at home in Germany would come to an end. But I didn't know it would come to an end like that. I thought that it was necessary too." In the weeks after the Picnic, more and more East Germans poured into the West German embassies in Prague and here in Budapest. These refugees crossing the border to the West from neighboring countries put increasing pressure on the East German government, until the wall fell on 9th November. This memorial now marks where the Picnic took place in Sophron. And senior European politicians will be attending celebrations marking the twentieth anniversary of the Picnic, and a united Europe.
- published: 18 Aug 2009
- views: 3735
This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the border of Austria and Hungary in 1989. The video was recorded in Sopron, Hungary, at the Iron Curtain Memorial, 23 years after his experience on the day that they opened the border. In 1989, he was secretary of the Minister of State, Imre Pozsgay, who was one of the sponsors of the Pan-European Picnic on August 19, 1989.
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In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives".
By Sofia Diogo Mateus
- published: 20 Apr 2009
- views: 4987
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near Sopron / Hungary
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Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border with Hungary.
www.extremelyhungary.org
- published: 09 Jun 2009
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FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
3. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
4. Mid of specially painted Trabant car, pan to people gathered in picnic tent
5. Picnic tent with barbed wire fence in the foreground
6. Close-up of black and white photo hanging from picnic tent
7. People taking food from buffet
8. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay (right) in picnic tent
9. Exterior of picnic tent with barrier in the foreground
10. Wide of people eating
11. Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) resident Rene Werse, who crossed the border in Sopronpuszta on August 19th, 1989, tilt-down to documents
12. Close-up of passport page, marked null and void on August 19, 1989
13. Inside of Werse's passport with travel documents
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Rene Werse, 1989 GDR refugee:
"One was definitely afraid. It was not the same situation as at the border within Germany where you knew that you would get shot. It was different here. I didn't expect to get shot, but it was queasy. It was the Iron Curtain."
15. Wide of watchtower at border
Sopron, Hungary - August 18, 2009
16. Wide of entrance to building hosting conferences on the 20th anniversary of the 19th August 1989 Pan-European Picnic and border breakthrough
17. Mid of Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990, talking to journalist, tilt-down to table
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"This was the test. And fortunately, Arpad Bella who served on that day as the head of the unit, although he did not get any information, he decided in the right way."
19. Tilt-down of panel documenting border breakthrough on August 19, 1989
20. Close-up of photograph of fleeing couple
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"From that day in mid-August it was clear that we are going to open the border, letting the GDR refugees go into the free world."
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
22. Wide pan of ceremony area beside picnic tent
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Laszlo Nagy, Pan-European Picnic foundation:
"Now we know that at that time this Eastern block was like an air balloon with overpressure, and it needed only a stitch with a needle - and we were holding these needles."
24. Various of women singing and dancing in traditional Hungarian clothing
STORYLINE:
Twenty years ago on Wednesday, members of Hungary's budding opposition organised a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbours.
Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the estimated 10,000 participants.
They had a plan: to take advantage of an excursion across the border to escape to Austria.
Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay was among those who took part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the "Pan-European Picnic," which helped precipitate the fall nearly three months later of the Berlin Wall.
One of the key factors allowing the Germans to escape: the decision by a Hungarian border guard commander not to stop them as they pushed through to freedom.
Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit a nearby Austrian town as a symbol of the new era of glasnost - or openness - under reformist Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev, and return to Hungary.
Once the initial group got through hundreds more East Germans joined them.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009
1. Wide of watchtower
2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint
3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire
4. Man cleaning a specially painted Trabant car, close to the border
5. Side shot of man cleaning car, painted with barbed wire motifs
6. Rear shot of man wiping down car
7. Wide of former Hungarian border guard Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and former Austrian border guard Johann Goeltl standing at fence with car in the foreground
8. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl greeting each other at fence
9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Johann Goeltl, Austrian border guard:
"We knew each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he (Arpad Bella) was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime. But now we've become friends. We meet very often and we also talk a lot about what happened here at the border."
10. Close up of photo of Johann Goeltl on uniform
11. Pan down former uniform of Johann Goeltl
12. Close up of badge of Austrian border guard on uniform
13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, Hungarian border guard:
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out. And so I had to bear the responsibility for this, of course."
14. Close up of poster showing refugees crossing border
15. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl talking
16. Wide pan across area where official ceremony will take place
17. Mid shot of flags, still covered with plastic
18. Wide shot of workers preparing sound system
19. Close up of white chairs for ceremony guests
20. Wide of chairs, pan across lawn to monument to Pan-European Picnic
21. Mid shot of Pan-European Picnic monument
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
22. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
23. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
24. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
STORYLINE:
Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will take part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an event which helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On August 19, 1989, members of Hungary's budding political opposition groups organised a picnic on the border between communist Hungary and capitalist Austria to promote the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the concept of a united Europe.
Among the estimated 10,000 picnic participants, some 600 East Germans took advantage of the circumstances, pushed through a wooden gate and escaped to Austria.
One such circumstance was the celebrated decision by a Hungarian border guard commander, Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, to allow the East Germans through without trying to stop them.
Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit the nearby Austrian town of St. Margarethen as a symbol of the new era and return to Hungary.
Instead, at the planned time of 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), Bella suddenly was faced by 150 East Germans walking up the road to the border gate, which had been closed since 1948.
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out," Bella said.
Still vivid in Bella's mind are the reactions of the East Germans, including many young people and families with small children, once they were on the other side.
Bella now has a close friendship with his Austrian counterpart, Johann Goeltl.
"We've known each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime, " Goeltl decribed the situation before the border opened up.
Now both meet often and discuss what happened on that historic day.
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1:32The picnic that changed history - no comment
The picnic that changed history - no commentThe picnic that changed history - no comment
The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989. The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European Picnic, saw the border gate symbolically opened for three hours. It happened on the road from Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland (Austria) to Sopronkőhida (Hungary). … READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2014/11/04/pan-european-picnic-the-first-brick-from-the-berlin-wall What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=euronews euronews is available in 14 languages: https://www.youtube.com/user/euronewsnetwork/channels In English: Website: http://www.euronews.com/news Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/euronews Twitter: http://twitter.com/euronews Google+: http://google.com/+euronews VKontakte: http://vk.com/en.euronews -
10:20Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1
Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1 Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage. 1989 August Timeline: http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002 english language interview with Nemeth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M -
10:33Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2
Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2 Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage. 1989 August Timeline: http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002 english language interview with Nemeth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M -
2:08East German Escape Picnic Memories
East German Escape Picnic MemoriesEast German Escape Picnic Memories
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories. August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape to the West. The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border on 19th August, gave many the chance to turn a dream into reality. Dietmar Poguntke, who was 26 at the time, was one of many East Germans who traveled to the friendly communist countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Poguntke and around 700 others managed to cross over when the border gates dividing East and West were opened for a few hours during the Picnic. [Dietmar Poguntke, Former East German Refugee]: "I crossed through a hole and there was this Austrian who said: 'Welcome to freedom', holding a piece of barbed wire like a rose. I couldn't believe it. In my mind I was expecting a first wall, then a second wall, a third one - like here. But he said: 'You are already in Austria!' I told him: 'No way'." The refugees hadn't expected crossing the border to be this easy. And the Hungarian border guards stationed there didn't shoot. The picnic was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration, highlighting the division of Europe. But then guards began sporadically opening and closing the border. Gerd Vehres experienced the Pan-European Picnic in a very different way. Twenty years ago, he was the East German Ambassador to Hungary. At the time, no one expected the Berlin Wall to fall just three months later. [Gerd Vehres, Former East German Ambassador to Hungary]: "I knew that an era at home in Germany would come to an end. But I didn't know it would come to an end like that. I thought that it was necessary too." In the weeks after the Picnic, more and more East Germans poured into the West German embassies in Prague and here in Budapest. These refugees crossing the border to the West from neighboring countries put increasing pressure on the East German government, until the wall fell on 9th November. This memorial now marks where the Picnic took place in Sophron. And senior European politicians will be attending celebrations marking the twentieth anniversary of the Picnic, and a united Europe. -
15:29Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the border of Austria and Hungary in 1989. The video was recorded in Sopron, Hungary, at the Iron Curtain Memorial, 23 years after his experience on the day that they opened the border. In 1989, he was secretary of the Minister of State, Imre Pozsgay, who was one of the sponsors of the Pan-European Picnic on August 19, 1989. -
1:35The place where the Iron Curtain first fell
The place where the Iron Curtain first fellThe place where the Iron Curtain first fell
In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives". By Sofia Diogo Mateus -
1:392012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary
2012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary2012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary
@sopron @Pan-european @Picnic @Memorial Park near Sopron / Hungary Stabilized with youtube -
5:38Pan European Picnic
Pan European PicnicPan European Picnic
Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border with Hungary. www.extremelyhungary.org -
3:15Re-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbite
Re-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbiteRe-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbite
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989 1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence 2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag 3. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009 4. Mid of specially painted Trabant car, pan to people gathered in picnic tent 5. Picnic tent with barbed wire fence in the foreground 6. Close-up of black and white photo hanging from picnic tent 7. People taking food from buffet 8. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay (right) in picnic tent 9. Exterior of picnic tent with barrier in the foreground 10. Wide of people eating 11. Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) resident Rene Werse, who crossed the border in Sopronpuszta on August 19th, 1989, tilt-down to documents 12. Close-up of passport page, marked null and void on August 19, 1989 13. Inside of Werse's passport with travel documents 14. SOUNDBITE (German) Rene Werse, 1989 GDR refugee: "One was definitely afraid. It was not the same situation as at the border within Germany where you knew that you would get shot. It was different here. I didn't expect to get shot, but it was queasy. It was the Iron Curtain." 15. Wide of watchtower at border Sopron, Hungary - August 18, 2009 16. Wide of entrance to building hosting conferences on the 20th anniversary of the 19th August 1989 Pan-European Picnic and border breakthrough 17. Mid of Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990, talking to journalist, tilt-down to table 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990: "This was the test. And fortunately, Arpad Bella who served on that day as the head of the unit, although he did not get any information, he decided in the right way." 19. Tilt-down of panel documenting border breakthrough on August 19, 1989 20. Close-up of photograph of fleeing couple 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990: "From that day in mid-August it was clear that we are going to open the border, letting the GDR refugees go into the free world." Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009 22. Wide pan of ceremony area beside picnic tent 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Laszlo Nagy, Pan-European Picnic foundation: "Now we know that at that time this Eastern block was like an air balloon with overpressure, and it needed only a stitch with a needle - and we were holding these needles." 24. Various of women singing and dancing in traditional Hungarian clothing STORYLINE: Twenty years ago on Wednesday, members of Hungary's budding opposition organised a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbours. Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the estimated 10,000 participants. They had a plan: to take advantage of an excursion across the border to escape to Austria. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay was among those who took part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the "Pan-European Picnic," which helped precipitate the fall nearly three months later of the Berlin Wall. One of the key factors allowing the Germans to escape: the decision by a Hungarian border guard commander not to stop them as they pushed through to freedom. Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit a nearby Austrian town as a symbol of the new era of glasnost - or openness - under reformist Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev, and return to Hungary. Once the initial group got through hundreds more East Germans joined them. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2de2943bfc68606d0bf640dd5f9f5b2a Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
2:55Preps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, file
Preps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, filePreps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, file
Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009 1. Wide of watchtower 2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint 3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire 4. Man cleaning a specially painted Trabant car, close to the border 5. Side shot of man cleaning car, painted with barbed wire motifs 6. Rear shot of man wiping down car 7. Wide of former Hungarian border guard Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and former Austrian border guard Johann Goeltl standing at fence with car in the foreground 8. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl greeting each other at fence 9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Johann Goeltl, Austrian border guard: "We knew each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he (Arpad Bella) was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime. But now we've become friends. We meet very often and we also talk a lot about what happened here at the border." 10. Close up of photo of Johann Goeltl on uniform 11. Pan down former uniform of Johann Goeltl 12. Close up of badge of Austrian border guard on uniform 13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, Hungarian border guard: "To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out. And so I had to bear the responsibility for this, of course." 14. Close up of poster showing refugees crossing border 15. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl talking 16. Wide pan across area where official ceremony will take place 17. Mid shot of flags, still covered with plastic 18. Wide shot of workers preparing sound system 19. Close up of white chairs for ceremony guests 20. Wide of chairs, pan across lawn to monument to Pan-European Picnic 21. Mid shot of Pan-European Picnic monument FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989 22. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence 23. Guard tower with Hungarian flag 24. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through STORYLINE: Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will take part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an event which helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall. On August 19, 1989, members of Hungary's budding political opposition groups organised a picnic on the border between communist Hungary and capitalist Austria to promote the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the concept of a united Europe. Among the estimated 10,000 picnic participants, some 600 East Germans took advantage of the circumstances, pushed through a wooden gate and escaped to Austria. One such circumstance was the celebrated decision by a Hungarian border guard commander, Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, to allow the East Germans through without trying to stop them. Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit the nearby Austrian town of St. Margarethen as a symbol of the new era and return to Hungary. Instead, at the planned time of 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), Bella suddenly was faced by 150 East Germans walking up the road to the border gate, which had been closed since 1948. "To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out," Bella said. Still vivid in Bella's mind are the reactions of the East Germans, including many young people and families with small children, once they were on the other side. Bella now has a close friendship with his Austrian counterpart, Johann Goeltl. "We've known each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime, " Goeltl decribed the situation before the border opened up. Now both meet often and discuss what happened on that historic day. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0db29a21d76d6e89b74a9a61295fe88b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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The picnic that changed history - no comment
The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989. The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European Picnic, saw the border gate symbolically opened for three hours. It happened on the road from Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland (Austria) to Sopronkőhida (Hungary). … READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2014/11/04/pan-european-picnic-the-first-brick-from-the-berlin-wall What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=euronews euronews is available in 14 languages: https://www.youtube.com/user/euronewsnetwork/channels In English: Website: http://... -
Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1 Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border in... -
Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2 Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border in... -
East German Escape Picnic Memories
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories. August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape to the West. The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border on 19th August, gave many the chance to turn a dream into reality. Dietmar Poguntke, who was 26 at the time, was one of many East Germans who traveled to the friendly communist countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Poguntke and around 700 others managed to cross over when the border gates dividing East and West were opened for a few hours during the Picnic. [Dietmar Poguntke, Former East German Refugee]: "I crossed through a hole and there was this Austrian who said: 'Welcome to freedom', holding a piece of barbed wire like a rose. I couldn't believ... -
Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the border of Austria and Hungary in 1989. The video was recorded in Sopron, Hungary, at the Iron Curtain Memorial, 23 years after his experience on the day that they opened the border. In 1989, he was secretary of the Minister of State, Imre Pozsgay, who was one of the sponsors of the Pan-European Picnic on August 19, 1989. -
The place where the Iron Curtain first fell
In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives". By Sofia Diogo Mateus -
2012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary
@sopron @Pan-european @Picnic @Memorial Park near Sopron / Hungary Stabilized with youtube -
Pan European Picnic
Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border with Hungary. www.extremelyhungary.org -
Re-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbite
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989 1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence 2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag 3. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009 4. Mid of specially painted Trabant car, pan to people gathered in picnic tent 5. Picnic tent with barbed wire fence in the foreground 6. Close-up of black and white photo hanging from picnic tent 7. People taking food from buffet 8. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay (right) in picnic tent 9. Exterior of picnic tent with barrier in the foreground 10. Wide of people eating 11. Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) resident Rene Werse, who crossed the border in Sopronpuszta on Au... -
Preps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, file
Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009 1. Wide of watchtower 2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint 3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire 4. Man cleaning a specially painted Trabant car, close to the border 5. Side shot of man cleaning car, painted with barbed wire motifs 6. Rear shot of man wiping down car 7. Wide of former Hungarian border guard Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and former Austrian border guard Johann Goeltl standing at fence with car in the foreground 8. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl greeting each other at fence 9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Johann Goeltl, Austrian border guard: "We knew each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he (Arpad Bella) was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime. But now we've become friends....
The picnic that changed history - no comment
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The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989.
The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European P...
The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989.
The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European Picnic, saw the border gate symbolically opened for three hours.
It happened on the road from Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland (Austria) to Sopronkőhida (Hungary).
…
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The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19, 1989.
The occasion, a peace demonstration called the Pan-European Picnic, saw the border gate symbolically opened for three hours.
It happened on the road from Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland (Austria) to Sopronkőhida (Hungary).
…
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Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1
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- Duration: 10:20
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Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorb...
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
wn.com/Pan European Picnic 1989 The End Of The Iron Curtain. Part 1
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 1
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
- published: 21 Oct 2009
- views: 19141
Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2
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- Duration: 10:33
- Updated: 21 Oct 2009
- views: 6677
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorb...
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
wn.com/Pan European Picnic 1989 The End Of The Iron Curtain. Part 2
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2
Documentary on how a renegade band of illegal immigrants and a few visionary leaders in Hungarian society conspired with Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The Nemeth government took power on Nov 26th 1988 and immediately started the transition of Hungarian society to a pluralistic market economy and democracy. On March 10ht 1989 the foreign minister Gyula Horn signed the treaty with his soviet counterpart Shevardnadze for the withdrawal of soviet troops and got verbal assurances from Gorbachev that he has the freedom to act in accordance to Hungary's national sovereignty as far as Hungary's internal affairs were concerned, and soviet troops will not interfere. On August 19th 700 east German citizens were allowed to cross the border into Austria, an event coordinated with border guards and political leaders on both sides of the border. This event marked the beginning of a steady stream of "illegal" defections from East Germany to West Germany via Hungary and Austria. Less than 3 months later the Berlin Wall came down as a direct consequence of this unprecedented act of defiance and courage.
1989 August Timeline:
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Index/id/652002
english language interview with Nemeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaP9cMplK1M
- published: 21 Oct 2009
- views: 6677
East German Escape Picnic Memories
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 18 Aug 2009
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East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories.
August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape ...
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories.
August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape to the West. The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border on 19th August, gave many the chance to turn a dream into reality. Dietmar Poguntke, who was 26 at the time, was one of many East Germans who traveled to the friendly communist countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Poguntke and around 700 others managed to cross over when the border gates dividing East and West were opened for a few hours during the Picnic. [Dietmar Poguntke, Former East German Refugee]: "I crossed through a hole and there was this Austrian who said: 'Welcome to freedom', holding a piece of barbed wire like a rose. I couldn't believe it. In my mind I was expecting a first wall, then a second wall, a third one - like here. But he said: 'You are already in Austria!' I told him: 'No way'." The refugees hadn't expected crossing the border to be this easy. And the Hungarian border guards stationed there didn't shoot. The picnic was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration, highlighting the division of Europe. But then guards began sporadically opening and closing the border. Gerd Vehres experienced the Pan-European Picnic in a very different way. Twenty years ago, he was the East German Ambassador to Hungary. At the time, no one expected the Berlin Wall to fall just three months later. [Gerd Vehres, Former East German Ambassador to Hungary]: "I knew that an era at home in Germany would come to an end. But I didn't know it would come to an end like that. I thought that it was necessary too." In the weeks after the Picnic, more and more East Germans poured into the West German embassies in Prague and here in Budapest. These refugees crossing the border to the West from neighboring countries put increasing pressure on the East German government, until the wall fell on 9th November. This memorial now marks where the Picnic took place in Sophron. And senior European politicians will be attending celebrations marking the twentieth anniversary of the Picnic, and a united Europe.
wn.com/East German Escape Picnic Memories
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories.
August 1989 - hundreds of East German refugees were desperate to escape to the West. The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border on 19th August, gave many the chance to turn a dream into reality. Dietmar Poguntke, who was 26 at the time, was one of many East Germans who traveled to the friendly communist countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Poguntke and around 700 others managed to cross over when the border gates dividing East and West were opened for a few hours during the Picnic. [Dietmar Poguntke, Former East German Refugee]: "I crossed through a hole and there was this Austrian who said: 'Welcome to freedom', holding a piece of barbed wire like a rose. I couldn't believe it. In my mind I was expecting a first wall, then a second wall, a third one - like here. But he said: 'You are already in Austria!' I told him: 'No way'." The refugees hadn't expected crossing the border to be this easy. And the Hungarian border guards stationed there didn't shoot. The picnic was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration, highlighting the division of Europe. But then guards began sporadically opening and closing the border. Gerd Vehres experienced the Pan-European Picnic in a very different way. Twenty years ago, he was the East German Ambassador to Hungary. At the time, no one expected the Berlin Wall to fall just three months later. [Gerd Vehres, Former East German Ambassador to Hungary]: "I knew that an era at home in Germany would come to an end. But I didn't know it would come to an end like that. I thought that it was necessary too." In the weeks after the Picnic, more and more East Germans poured into the West German embassies in Prague and here in Budapest. These refugees crossing the border to the West from neighboring countries put increasing pressure on the East German government, until the wall fell on 9th November. This memorial now marks where the Picnic took place in Sophron. And senior European politicians will be attending celebrations marking the twentieth anniversary of the Picnic, and a united Europe.
- published: 18 Aug 2009
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Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
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- Duration: 15:29
- Updated: 07 Apr 2013
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This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the bor...
This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the border of Austria and Hungary in 1989. The video was recorded in Sopron, Hungary, at the Iron Curtain Memorial, 23 years after his experience on the day that they opened the border. In 1989, he was secretary of the Minister of State, Imre Pozsgay, who was one of the sponsors of the Pan-European Picnic on August 19, 1989.
wn.com/Story Of The Pan European Picnic In Sopron, Hungary On August 19, 1989
This is a video of Dr. Laszlo Vass, the rector of the Budapest College of Communication and Business, telling his story about the Pan-European Picnic at the border of Austria and Hungary in 1989. The video was recorded in Sopron, Hungary, at the Iron Curtain Memorial, 23 years after his experience on the day that they opened the border. In 1989, he was secretary of the Minister of State, Imre Pozsgay, who was one of the sponsors of the Pan-European Picnic on August 19, 1989.
- published: 07 Apr 2013
- views: 1998
The place where the Iron Curtain first fell
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- Duration: 1:35
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In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picni...
In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives".
By Sofia Diogo Mateus
wn.com/The Place Where The Iron Curtain First Fell
In the city of Sopron, in Hungary (next to the border with Austria) there are monuments to remember what happened 20 years ago, in 1989 - the Pan-European Picnic in which people broke through the fence that separated both countries. They say it is important to remember because it was a "civil movement" and it was people to made a move to "change their lives".
By Sofia Diogo Mateus
- published: 20 Apr 2009
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2012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary
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@sopron @Pan-european @Picnic @Memorial Park
near Sopron / Hungary
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- published: 18 Jan 2012
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Pan European Picnic
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Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border...
Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border with Hungary.
www.extremelyhungary.org
wn.com/Pan European Picnic
Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th anniversary of protest in Sopron, Hungary, near the iron curtain border with Hungary.
www.extremelyhungary.org
- published: 09 Jun 2009
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Re-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbite
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FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
3. Various of g...
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
3. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
4. Mid of specially painted Trabant car, pan to people gathered in picnic tent
5. Picnic tent with barbed wire fence in the foreground
6. Close-up of black and white photo hanging from picnic tent
7. People taking food from buffet
8. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay (right) in picnic tent
9. Exterior of picnic tent with barrier in the foreground
10. Wide of people eating
11. Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) resident Rene Werse, who crossed the border in Sopronpuszta on August 19th, 1989, tilt-down to documents
12. Close-up of passport page, marked null and void on August 19, 1989
13. Inside of Werse's passport with travel documents
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Rene Werse, 1989 GDR refugee:
"One was definitely afraid. It was not the same situation as at the border within Germany where you knew that you would get shot. It was different here. I didn't expect to get shot, but it was queasy. It was the Iron Curtain."
15. Wide of watchtower at border
Sopron, Hungary - August 18, 2009
16. Wide of entrance to building hosting conferences on the 20th anniversary of the 19th August 1989 Pan-European Picnic and border breakthrough
17. Mid of Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990, talking to journalist, tilt-down to table
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"This was the test. And fortunately, Arpad Bella who served on that day as the head of the unit, although he did not get any information, he decided in the right way."
19. Tilt-down of panel documenting border breakthrough on August 19, 1989
20. Close-up of photograph of fleeing couple
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"From that day in mid-August it was clear that we are going to open the border, letting the GDR refugees go into the free world."
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
22. Wide pan of ceremony area beside picnic tent
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Laszlo Nagy, Pan-European Picnic foundation:
"Now we know that at that time this Eastern block was like an air balloon with overpressure, and it needed only a stitch with a needle - and we were holding these needles."
24. Various of women singing and dancing in traditional Hungarian clothing
STORYLINE:
Twenty years ago on Wednesday, members of Hungary's budding opposition organised a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbours.
Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the estimated 10,000 participants.
They had a plan: to take advantage of an excursion across the border to escape to Austria.
Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay was among those who took part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the "Pan-European Picnic," which helped precipitate the fall nearly three months later of the Berlin Wall.
One of the key factors allowing the Germans to escape: the decision by a Hungarian border guard commander not to stop them as they pushed through to freedom.
Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit a nearby Austrian town as a symbol of the new era of glasnost - or openness - under reformist Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev, and return to Hungary.
Once the initial group got through hundreds more East Germans joined them.
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FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
1. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
2. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
3. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
4. Mid of specially painted Trabant car, pan to people gathered in picnic tent
5. Picnic tent with barbed wire fence in the foreground
6. Close-up of black and white photo hanging from picnic tent
7. People taking food from buffet
8. Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay (right) in picnic tent
9. Exterior of picnic tent with barrier in the foreground
10. Wide of people eating
11. Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) resident Rene Werse, who crossed the border in Sopronpuszta on August 19th, 1989, tilt-down to documents
12. Close-up of passport page, marked null and void on August 19, 1989
13. Inside of Werse's passport with travel documents
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Rene Werse, 1989 GDR refugee:
"One was definitely afraid. It was not the same situation as at the border within Germany where you knew that you would get shot. It was different here. I didn't expect to get shot, but it was queasy. It was the Iron Curtain."
15. Wide of watchtower at border
Sopron, Hungary - August 18, 2009
16. Wide of entrance to building hosting conferences on the 20th anniversary of the 19th August 1989 Pan-European Picnic and border breakthrough
17. Mid of Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990, talking to journalist, tilt-down to table
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"This was the test. And fortunately, Arpad Bella who served on that day as the head of the unit, although he did not get any information, he decided in the right way."
19. Tilt-down of panel documenting border breakthrough on August 19, 1989
20. Close-up of photograph of fleeing couple
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Miklos Nemeth, Hungarian prime minister in 1988-1990:
"From that day in mid-August it was clear that we are going to open the border, letting the GDR refugees go into the free world."
Sopronpuszta, Hungary (Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron) - August 19, 2009
22. Wide pan of ceremony area beside picnic tent
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Laszlo Nagy, Pan-European Picnic foundation:
"Now we know that at that time this Eastern block was like an air balloon with overpressure, and it needed only a stitch with a needle - and we were holding these needles."
24. Various of women singing and dancing in traditional Hungarian clothing
STORYLINE:
Twenty years ago on Wednesday, members of Hungary's budding opposition organised a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbours.
Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the estimated 10,000 participants.
They had a plan: to take advantage of an excursion across the border to escape to Austria.
Former Hungarian foreign minister Imre Pozsgay was among those who took part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the "Pan-European Picnic," which helped precipitate the fall nearly three months later of the Berlin Wall.
One of the key factors allowing the Germans to escape: the decision by a Hungarian border guard commander not to stop them as they pushed through to freedom.
Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit a nearby Austrian town as a symbol of the new era of glasnost - or openness - under reformist Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev, and return to Hungary.
Once the initial group got through hundreds more East Germans joined them.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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Preps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, file
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Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009
1. Wide of watchtower
2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint
3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire
4. Man ...
Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009
1. Wide of watchtower
2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint
3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire
4. Man cleaning a specially painted Trabant car, close to the border
5. Side shot of man cleaning car, painted with barbed wire motifs
6. Rear shot of man wiping down car
7. Wide of former Hungarian border guard Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and former Austrian border guard Johann Goeltl standing at fence with car in the foreground
8. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl greeting each other at fence
9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Johann Goeltl, Austrian border guard:
"We knew each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he (Arpad Bella) was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime. But now we've become friends. We meet very often and we also talk a lot about what happened here at the border."
10. Close up of photo of Johann Goeltl on uniform
11. Pan down former uniform of Johann Goeltl
12. Close up of badge of Austrian border guard on uniform
13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, Hungarian border guard:
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out. And so I had to bear the responsibility for this, of course."
14. Close up of poster showing refugees crossing border
15. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl talking
16. Wide pan across area where official ceremony will take place
17. Mid shot of flags, still covered with plastic
18. Wide shot of workers preparing sound system
19. Close up of white chairs for ceremony guests
20. Wide of chairs, pan across lawn to monument to Pan-European Picnic
21. Mid shot of Pan-European Picnic monument
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
22. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
23. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
24. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
STORYLINE:
Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will take part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an event which helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On August 19, 1989, members of Hungary's budding political opposition groups organised a picnic on the border between communist Hungary and capitalist Austria to promote the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the concept of a united Europe.
Among the estimated 10,000 picnic participants, some 600 East Germans took advantage of the circumstances, pushed through a wooden gate and escaped to Austria.
One such circumstance was the celebrated decision by a Hungarian border guard commander, Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, to allow the East Germans through without trying to stop them.
Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit the nearby Austrian town of St. Margarethen as a symbol of the new era and return to Hungary.
Instead, at the planned time of 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), Bella suddenly was faced by 150 East Germans walking up the road to the border gate, which had been closed since 1948.
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out," Bella said.
Still vivid in Bella's mind are the reactions of the East Germans, including many young people and families with small children, once they were on the other side.
Bella now has a close friendship with his Austrian counterpart, Johann Goeltl.
"We've known each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime, " Goeltl decribed the situation before the border opened up.
Now both meet often and discuss what happened on that historic day.
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Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009
1. Wide of watchtower
2. Mid shot of flowers at former border checkpoint
3. Pan from flowers to barbed wire
4. Man cleaning a specially painted Trabant car, close to the border
5. Side shot of man cleaning car, painted with barbed wire motifs
6. Rear shot of man wiping down car
7. Wide of former Hungarian border guard Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella and former Austrian border guard Johann Goeltl standing at fence with car in the foreground
8. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl greeting each other at fence
9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Johann Goeltl, Austrian border guard:
"We knew each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he (Arpad Bella) was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime. But now we've become friends. We meet very often and we also talk a lot about what happened here at the border."
10. Close up of photo of Johann Goeltl on uniform
11. Pan down former uniform of Johann Goeltl
12. Close up of badge of Austrian border guard on uniform
13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, Hungarian border guard:
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out. And so I had to bear the responsibility for this, of course."
14. Close up of poster showing refugees crossing border
15. Mid shot of Bella and Goeltl talking
16. Wide pan across area where official ceremony will take place
17. Mid shot of flags, still covered with plastic
18. Wide shot of workers preparing sound system
19. Close up of white chairs for ceremony guests
20. Wide of chairs, pan across lawn to monument to Pan-European Picnic
21. Mid shot of Pan-European Picnic monument
FILE - Austrian side of Austria/Hungary border - 19 August 1989
22. Crowds on Austrian side of border fence
23. Guard tower with Hungarian flag
24. Various of gate being pushed open, East Germans walking through
STORYLINE:
Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will take part in festivities on Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an event which helped precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On August 19, 1989, members of Hungary's budding political opposition groups organised a picnic on the border between communist Hungary and capitalist Austria to promote the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the concept of a united Europe.
Among the estimated 10,000 picnic participants, some 600 East Germans took advantage of the circumstances, pushed through a wooden gate and escaped to Austria.
One such circumstance was the celebrated decision by a Hungarian border guard commander, Lieutenant Colonel Arpad Bella, to allow the East Germans through without trying to stop them.
Bella and five of his men had been expecting a Hungarian delegation to cross the border at Sopronpuszta by bus, visit the nearby Austrian town of St. Margarethen as a symbol of the new era and return to Hungary.
Instead, at the planned time of 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), Bella suddenly was faced by 150 East Germans walking up the road to the border gate, which had been closed since 1948.
"To me, children and women were no enemies. Therefore I decided to let them all out," Bella said.
Still vivid in Bella's mind are the reactions of the East Germans, including many young people and families with small children, once they were on the other side.
Bella now has a close friendship with his Austrian counterpart, Johann Goeltl.
"We've known each other before, but the friendship could not become close because he was not allowed to talk to me under the Communist regime, " Goeltl decribed the situation before the border opened up.
Now both meet often and discuss what happened on that historic day.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0db29a21d76d6e89b74a9a61295fe88b
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Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin főpályaudvarán. -------------------------------------------- MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE from Hamburg and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu -
Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Ostbahnhof
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin-Keletiben. -------------------------------------------- MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE to Hamburg - and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu -
a Brick of the WALL - the 25th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, SopronPuszta
A Páneurópai Piknik A Magyar Demokrata Fórum debreceni szervezete és a Soproni Ellenzéki Kerekasztal pártjai 1989. augusztus 19-re Páneurópai Piknik elnevezéssel rendezvényt hirdettek a vasfüggöny lebontásának és a határok nélküli közös Európa eszméjének népszerűsítésére. Ezen a rendezvényen törte át az osztrák- magyar államhatáron álló "vasfüggöny" kapuját több száz NDK-s állampolgár, hogy szabad földre jutva továbbutazhassanak az NSZK-ba. A látványos tömegmenekülés adott újabb lökést a változásoknak, és vezetett a Berlini Fal leomlásához. Ezt követte Berlin és Németország újraegyesítése. http://www.fertorakosikirandulas.hu/fertorakos/paneuropai_piknik.html - - - - - - - - the 25th Pan-European Picnic anniversary celebrated A ceremony has been held in a town on the Austrian-Hungarian b... -
HATÁRTALAN (Borderless)
MAGIC THEATRE was a youth exchange in West-Hungary, Sopron, in the city of Pan European Picnic. On the 24th anniversary of the Picnic, where the Iron Curtain first opened, thirty youngsters from six different countries (Slovakia, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Italy and Hungary) through theatre workshop got the chance to have a better understanding of their selves, their creativity and entrepreneurship. Daily workshops during a week, with the collaboration of professional young actors and directors raised their consciousness and creative initiative, and had a chance to challenge youth unemployment. Based on their personal experiences, fears and expectations after a week their theatre piece, called HATÁRTALAN (Borderless) was premiered in Sopron Museum. The project convinced young people and al... -
C007 European Picnic
08-09-2010 Hungarian Border, European Picnic, Moerbisch am See/music: Hanne Darboven Opus 2/(Archive C 007)
Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:08
- Updated: 30 Aug 2014
- views: 1575
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin főpályaudvarán.
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A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin főpályaudvarán.
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MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE from Hamburg and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu
wn.com/Páneurópai Mozdony Mrce Es 64 U2 009 At Berlin Hauptbahnhof
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin főpályaudvarán.
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MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE from Hamburg and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu
- published: 30 Aug 2014
- views: 1575
Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Ostbahnhof
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 30 Aug 2014
- views: 1281
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin-Keletiben.
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A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin-Keletiben.
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MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE to Hamburg - and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu
wn.com/Páneurópai Mozdony Mrce Es 64 U2 009 At Berlin Ostbahnhof
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket állító mozdony Berlin-Keletiben.
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MRCE (Mitsui Rail Capital Europe) GmbH ES64 U2-009 with an IRE to Hamburg - and a special livery commemorating the Pan-European Picnic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
Uploaded for http://hamster.blog.hu
- published: 30 Aug 2014
- views: 1281
a Brick of the WALL - the 25th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, SopronPuszta
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- Duration: 60:36
- Updated: 20 Aug 2014
- views: 735
A Páneurópai Piknik
A Magyar Demokrata Fórum debreceni szervezete és a Soproni Ellenzéki Kerekasztal pártjai 1989. augusztus 19-re Páneurópai Piknik elnevezéss...
A Páneurópai Piknik
A Magyar Demokrata Fórum debreceni szervezete és a Soproni Ellenzéki Kerekasztal pártjai 1989. augusztus 19-re Páneurópai Piknik elnevezéssel rendezvényt hirdettek a vasfüggöny lebontásának és a határok nélküli közös Európa eszméjének népszerűsítésére. Ezen a rendezvényen törte át az osztrák- magyar államhatáron álló "vasfüggöny" kapuját több száz NDK-s állampolgár, hogy szabad földre jutva továbbutazhassanak az NSZK-ba. A látványos tömegmenekülés adott újabb lökést a változásoknak, és vezetett a Berlini Fal leomlásához. Ezt követte Berlin és Németország újraegyesítése.
http://www.fertorakosikirandulas.hu/fertorakos/paneuropai_piknik.html
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the 25th Pan-European Picnic anniversary celebrated
A ceremony has been held in a town on the Austrian-Hungarian border to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a picnic that contributed to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
In August 1989, a rally was held in Hungary near the Austrian border. More than 600 East German (DDR) participants defected en masse to the West.
The event is now known as the "Pan-European Picnic".
On Tuesday, ceremonies to mark the anniversary were held at various places, including Sopron, the site of the rally.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said (23:15) in a speech in a town near Sopron that the place changed the international community and gave people freedom.
He stressed that the incident was a key moment in history and the memory must be passed down to younger generations.
One man traveled from Germany with his son to attend the ceremony. He said his son did not experience the Cold War era and he wants him to know about the incident that helped form today's Europe.
History
The Pan-European Picnic
In the second half of the 1980s, the Soviet Union was no longer in a condition to keep up with the technical development of the west. They had striven to be a world power, but they were falling behind in the arms race, which was taking too many resources from their economy. It became
ever more difficult for Moscow to hang on to its satellite nations. These crises on the periphery and half periphery of the system led to a rapid
collapse of the system of state socialism. The process of change led to a new independence of the former satellite nations. Poland and Hungary were the leading agents of change among the nations of East and Central Europe. These changes fed on each other and suddenly accelerated so that events which earlier would have been unbelievable appeared in an unusual way, especially in the summer of 1989 on the Austrian Hungarian border. This was the year of the miracles which became
known as “annus mirabilis.”
The leadership of the GDR followed events as if they were paralyzed. They became prisoners not only of their own politics, but of their own citizens whom they had held as hostages. The Communist leadership in Berlin stood by helplessly as ever more East Germans fled from their hopeless situation. Their first goal was to settle in West Germany. The easiest way to leave the socialist system behind seemed to be through Hungary. Their hopes had been fed since 2nd May, 1989 by the discussions which had begun between Austria and Hungary on dismantling the Iron Curtain. This set off a flood of rumors that Austria could be reached with only a little walk. It was not so simple. Illegal border crossers were still being stopped by the border police, and a mobile border patrol was begun which made it possible to send back potential refugees from a wider border area. In summer the first serious diplomatic discussions had started to clarify the situation of the East German citizens who were gathering in large numbers in Hungary, though these talks led to no result. In this situation an initiative came from Hungarian opposition of that time to organize a celebration for European unity on the Austro-Hungarian border which took on a special significance.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140820_03.html
http://www.paneuropaipiknik.hu/index.php?site=30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
wn.com/A Brick Of The Wall The 25Th Anniversary Of The Pan European Picnic, Sopronpuszta
A Páneurópai Piknik
A Magyar Demokrata Fórum debreceni szervezete és a Soproni Ellenzéki Kerekasztal pártjai 1989. augusztus 19-re Páneurópai Piknik elnevezéssel rendezvényt hirdettek a vasfüggöny lebontásának és a határok nélküli közös Európa eszméjének népszerűsítésére. Ezen a rendezvényen törte át az osztrák- magyar államhatáron álló "vasfüggöny" kapuját több száz NDK-s állampolgár, hogy szabad földre jutva továbbutazhassanak az NSZK-ba. A látványos tömegmenekülés adott újabb lökést a változásoknak, és vezetett a Berlini Fal leomlásához. Ezt követte Berlin és Németország újraegyesítése.
http://www.fertorakosikirandulas.hu/fertorakos/paneuropai_piknik.html
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the 25th Pan-European Picnic anniversary celebrated
A ceremony has been held in a town on the Austrian-Hungarian border to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a picnic that contributed to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
In August 1989, a rally was held in Hungary near the Austrian border. More than 600 East German (DDR) participants defected en masse to the West.
The event is now known as the "Pan-European Picnic".
On Tuesday, ceremonies to mark the anniversary were held at various places, including Sopron, the site of the rally.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said (23:15) in a speech in a town near Sopron that the place changed the international community and gave people freedom.
He stressed that the incident was a key moment in history and the memory must be passed down to younger generations.
One man traveled from Germany with his son to attend the ceremony. He said his son did not experience the Cold War era and he wants him to know about the incident that helped form today's Europe.
History
The Pan-European Picnic
In the second half of the 1980s, the Soviet Union was no longer in a condition to keep up with the technical development of the west. They had striven to be a world power, but they were falling behind in the arms race, which was taking too many resources from their economy. It became
ever more difficult for Moscow to hang on to its satellite nations. These crises on the periphery and half periphery of the system led to a rapid
collapse of the system of state socialism. The process of change led to a new independence of the former satellite nations. Poland and Hungary were the leading agents of change among the nations of East and Central Europe. These changes fed on each other and suddenly accelerated so that events which earlier would have been unbelievable appeared in an unusual way, especially in the summer of 1989 on the Austrian Hungarian border. This was the year of the miracles which became
known as “annus mirabilis.”
The leadership of the GDR followed events as if they were paralyzed. They became prisoners not only of their own politics, but of their own citizens whom they had held as hostages. The Communist leadership in Berlin stood by helplessly as ever more East Germans fled from their hopeless situation. Their first goal was to settle in West Germany. The easiest way to leave the socialist system behind seemed to be through Hungary. Their hopes had been fed since 2nd May, 1989 by the discussions which had begun between Austria and Hungary on dismantling the Iron Curtain. This set off a flood of rumors that Austria could be reached with only a little walk. It was not so simple. Illegal border crossers were still being stopped by the border police, and a mobile border patrol was begun which made it possible to send back potential refugees from a wider border area. In summer the first serious diplomatic discussions had started to clarify the situation of the East German citizens who were gathering in large numbers in Hungary, though these talks led to no result. In this situation an initiative came from Hungarian opposition of that time to organize a celebration for European unity on the Austro-Hungarian border which took on a special significance.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140820_03.html
http://www.paneuropaipiknik.hu/index.php?site=30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
- published: 20 Aug 2014
- views: 735
HATÁRTALAN (Borderless)
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- Duration: 30:38
- Updated: 15 Jan 2014
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MAGIC THEATRE
was a youth exchange in West-Hungary, Sopron, in the city of Pan European Picnic. On the 24th anniversary of the Picnic, where the Iron Curtain f...
MAGIC THEATRE
was a youth exchange in West-Hungary, Sopron, in the city of Pan European Picnic. On the 24th anniversary of the Picnic, where the Iron Curtain first opened, thirty youngsters from six different countries (Slovakia, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Italy and Hungary) through theatre workshop got the chance to have a better understanding of their selves, their creativity and entrepreneurship. Daily workshops during a week, with the collaboration of professional young actors and directors raised their consciousness and creative initiative, and had a chance to challenge youth unemployment.
Based on their personal experiences, fears and expectations after a week their theatre piece, called HATÁRTALAN (Borderless) was premiered in Sopron Museum. The project convinced young people and all the audiance about the history-shaping forces of the liberated mind and the active citizenship.
wn.com/Határtalan (Borderless)
MAGIC THEATRE
was a youth exchange in West-Hungary, Sopron, in the city of Pan European Picnic. On the 24th anniversary of the Picnic, where the Iron Curtain first opened, thirty youngsters from six different countries (Slovakia, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Italy and Hungary) through theatre workshop got the chance to have a better understanding of their selves, their creativity and entrepreneurship. Daily workshops during a week, with the collaboration of professional young actors and directors raised their consciousness and creative initiative, and had a chance to challenge youth unemployment.
Based on their personal experiences, fears and expectations after a week their theatre piece, called HATÁRTALAN (Borderless) was premiered in Sopron Museum. The project convinced young people and all the audiance about the history-shaping forces of the liberated mind and the active citizenship.
- published: 15 Jan 2014
- views: 141
C007 European Picnic
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:52
- Updated: 12 Feb 2012
- views: 44
08-09-2010 Hungarian Border, European Picnic, Moerbisch am See/music: Hanne Darboven Opus 2/(Archive C 007)
08-09-2010 Hungarian Border, European Picnic, Moerbisch am See/music: Hanne Darboven Opus 2/(Archive C 007)
wn.com/C007 European Picnic
08-09-2010 Hungarian Border, European Picnic, Moerbisch am See/music: Hanne Darboven Opus 2/(Archive C 007)
- published: 12 Feb 2012
- views: 44
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歐洲野餐計劃-柏林墻是這樣倒塌的
■ 1989年11月9日，東西冷戰的象徵-柏林墻崩潰了。誰都沒預測到的這個歷史性的重大事件，始於由僅僅幾個人策劃的出奇的計劃。這個計劃被命名為歐洲郊遊計劃（Pan-European Picnic）。 ■ 本片根據眾多有關人員的證言和龐大的絕密文件，描寫匈牙利共產黨幹部們所絕密推行的策略，以及美蘇和歐洲各國領導人虛虛實實的政治較量，是一部大型獨家報道紀實作品。 -
Nailsea to Bath ST1300 Pan European Pt 1
Nailsea to Victoria Park Bath, for a Picnic, on the Pan. Looks like I'm going faster than I actually am, the camera is very deceptive. Funny, I no longer own a cruiser, so the Cruiser riders hardly nod ....sport riders...some do , some don't,....so so so so sad ! When I was in France recently, all bikers of all sorts and even some car drivers waved out...what is wrong with us ??????? -
The Cold War: The Wall Comes Down (1989) | 23 of 24
Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negotiations with the Government, and would end up winning a landslide election. In Hungary the Government chooses to symbolically reinter Imre Nagy, and open its frontier with Austria, which is then crossed by increasing numbers of holidaying East Germans. Erich Honecker refuses to implement reforms, despite subtle pressure from Gorbachev and growing protests across East Germany. The bloody end to dissent in China is never far from the minds of protesters. Just as protests reach a peak, Soviet forces in East Germany are stood down, and Honecker is replaced by an unimpressive Egon Krenz. As a concession travel restrictions are lifted but the new regulations are misc... -
DCnepal.com - ANS Teej, Picnic 2068
Event video by www.dcnepal.com (Full copyright with www.dcnepal.com) -
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
A string of extraordinary events led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Hungary, a Communist country itself at the time, played no small role in them. In the studio to discuss the before and after of German and indeed European reunification are two MEPs: Joachim Zeller, who lived in the former East Germany, and Kinga Göncz, former Foreign Minister of Hungary. -
Europe +Amsterdam
歐洲野餐計劃-柏林墻是這樣倒塌的
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- Duration: 88:21
- Updated: 18 Sep 2014
- views: 3631
■ 1989年11月9日，東西冷戰的象徵-柏林墻崩潰了。誰都沒預測到的這個歷史性的重大事件，始於由僅僅幾個人策劃的出奇的計劃。這個計劃被命名為歐洲郊遊計劃（Pan-European Picnic）。
■ 本片根據眾多有關人員的證言和龐大的絕密文件，描寫匈牙利共產黨幹部們所絕密推行的策略，以及美蘇和歐洲各國領導人虛虛實實...
■ 1989年11月9日，東西冷戰的象徵-柏林墻崩潰了。誰都沒預測到的這個歷史性的重大事件，始於由僅僅幾個人策劃的出奇的計劃。這個計劃被命名為歐洲郊遊計劃（Pan-European Picnic）。
■ 本片根據眾多有關人員的證言和龐大的絕密文件，描寫匈牙利共產黨幹部們所絕密推行的策略，以及美蘇和歐洲各國領導人虛虛實實的政治較量，是一部大型獨家報道紀實作品。
wn.com/歐洲野餐計劃 柏林墻是這樣倒塌的
■ 1989年11月9日，東西冷戰的象徵-柏林墻崩潰了。誰都沒預測到的這個歷史性的重大事件，始於由僅僅幾個人策劃的出奇的計劃。這個計劃被命名為歐洲郊遊計劃（Pan-European Picnic）。
■ 本片根據眾多有關人員的證言和龐大的絕密文件，描寫匈牙利共產黨幹部們所絕密推行的策略，以及美蘇和歐洲各國領導人虛虛實實的政治較量，是一部大型獨家報道紀實作品。
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Nailsea to Bath ST1300 Pan European Pt 1
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Nailsea to Victoria Park Bath, for a Picnic, on the Pan.
Looks like I'm going faster than I actually am, the camera is very deceptive.
Funny, I no longer...
Nailsea to Victoria Park Bath, for a Picnic, on the Pan.
Looks like I'm going faster than I actually am, the camera is very deceptive.
Funny, I no longer own a cruiser, so the Cruiser riders hardly nod ....sport riders...some do , some don't,....so so so so sad ! When I was in France recently, all bikers of all sorts and even some car drivers waved out...what is wrong with us ???????
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Nailsea to Victoria Park Bath, for a Picnic, on the Pan.
Looks like I'm going faster than I actually am, the camera is very deceptive.
Funny, I no longer own a cruiser, so the Cruiser riders hardly nod ....sport riders...some do , some don't,....so so so so sad ! When I was in France recently, all bikers of all sorts and even some car drivers waved out...what is wrong with us ???????
- published: 17 Apr 2011
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The Cold War: The Wall Comes Down (1989) | 23 of 24
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- Duration: 46:28
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Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negotiations with the Government, ...
Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negotiations with the Government, and would end up winning a landslide election. In Hungary the Government chooses to symbolically reinter Imre Nagy, and open its frontier with Austria, which is then crossed by increasing numbers of holidaying East Germans. Erich Honecker refuses to implement reforms, despite subtle pressure from Gorbachev and growing protests across East Germany. The bloody end to dissent in China is never far from the minds of protesters. Just as protests reach a peak, Soviet forces in East Germany are stood down, and Honecker is replaced by an unimpressive Egon Krenz. As a concession travel restrictions are lifted but the new regulations are miscommunicated, and the Berlin Wall is suddenly and irrevocably breached by masses of East Germans. In the momentum, the fate of communism in East Germany is sealed. Interviewees include Miklós Németh, Egon Krenz and George H. W. Bush. The pre-credits scene includes Gorbachev explaining that by 1989, force alone could not secure the world.
"The Wall Comes Down (1989)" recalls the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe. "I felt I could breathe again," says Hungarian revolutionary Erzsbet Hrozova. Also interviewed: Lech Walesa, George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and former Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth. Kenneth Branagh narrates.
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Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negotiations with the Government, and would end up winning a landslide election. In Hungary the Government chooses to symbolically reinter Imre Nagy, and open its frontier with Austria, which is then crossed by increasing numbers of holidaying East Germans. Erich Honecker refuses to implement reforms, despite subtle pressure from Gorbachev and growing protests across East Germany. The bloody end to dissent in China is never far from the minds of protesters. Just as protests reach a peak, Soviet forces in East Germany are stood down, and Honecker is replaced by an unimpressive Egon Krenz. As a concession travel restrictions are lifted but the new regulations are miscommunicated, and the Berlin Wall is suddenly and irrevocably breached by masses of East Germans. In the momentum, the fate of communism in East Germany is sealed. Interviewees include Miklós Németh, Egon Krenz and George H. W. Bush. The pre-credits scene includes Gorbachev explaining that by 1989, force alone could not secure the world.
"The Wall Comes Down (1989)" recalls the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe. "I felt I could breathe again," says Hungarian revolutionary Erzsbet Hrozova. Also interviewed: Lech Walesa, George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and former Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth. Kenneth Branagh narrates.
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DCnepal.com - ANS Teej, Picnic 2068
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1989 picnic with everyone
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Also Howard and Joan visiting Nancy lou and Dick and Tom. Then Nicole and Rachel have beach time with Howard
Also Howard and Joan visiting Nancy lou and Dick and Tom. Then Nicole and Rachel have beach time with Howard
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Frasure Re-Union 1989
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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- Updated: 28 Oct 2009
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A string of extraordinary events led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Hungary, a Communist country itself at the time, played no small role i...
A string of extraordinary events led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Hungary, a Communist country itself at the time, played no small role in them. In the studio to discuss the before and after of German and indeed European reunification are two MEPs: Joachim Zeller, who lived in the former East Germany, and Kinga Göncz, former Foreign Minister of Hungary.
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A string of extraordinary events led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Hungary, a Communist country itself at the time, played no small role in them. In the studio to discuss the before and after of German and indeed European reunification are two MEPs: Joachim Zeller, who lived in the former East Germany, and Kinga Göncz, former Foreign Minister of Hungary.
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Europe +Amsterdam
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The picnic that changed history - no comment
The first holes in the Iron Curtain appeared on the Austrian-Hungarian border on August 19...
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Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 1
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Pan-European Picnic 1989: the end of the Iron-Curtain. Part 2
Németh Miklós 89 Határokon át 2
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East German Escape Picnic Memories
East Germans remember escaping to the West 20 years ago. Let's hear their stories.
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Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
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Story of the Pan-European Picnic in Sopron, Hungary on August 19, 1989
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The place where the Iron Curtain first fell
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2012-01-18 oktokopter - Pan-european Picnic Sopron / Hungary
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Pan European Picnic
Extremely Hungary's Pan European Picnic Redux in Fulton Ferry State Park celebrates 20th a...
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Re-enactment of Pan Europe picnic to mark 20th anniv, fmr Hungarian PM sbite
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Preps for event marking 20th anniversary of Pan-European Picnic, file
Sopronpuszta, Hungary - August 18, 2009
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Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
A Páneurópai Pikniknek (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1neur%C3%B3pai_piknik) emléket ...
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Páneurópai mozdony / MRCE ES 64 U2-009 at Berlin Ostbahnhof
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a Brick of the WALL - the 25th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, SopronPuszta
A Páneurópai Piknik
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a Brick of the WALL - the 25th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, SopronPuszta
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歐洲野餐計劃-柏林墻是這樣倒塌的
■ 1989年11月9日，東西冷戰的象徵-柏林墻崩潰了。誰都沒預測到的這個歷史性的重大事件，始於由僅僅幾個人策劃的出奇的計劃。這個計劃被命名為歐洲郊遊計劃（Pan-European...
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歐洲野餐計劃-柏林墻是這樣倒塌的
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Nailsea to Bath ST1300 Pan European Pt 1
Nailsea to Victoria Park Bath, for a Picnic, on the Pan.
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The Cold War: The Wall Comes Down (1989) | 23 of 24
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DCnepal.com - ANS Teej, Picnic 2068
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1989 picnic with everyone
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Frasure Re-Union 1989
Family Picnic
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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Trump: 'What Do You Think Of Waterboarding? I Like It A Lot'
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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed a cheering partisan audience at an Ohio rally Wednesday and repeated his call for the return of waterboarding against Islamic State militants saying, “What do you think of waterboarding?. He then responded to his own question saying “I like it a lot.” ... The New York real estate tycoon lamented the U.S ... to close its borders to Muslim arrivals....
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Repaired Egyptair MS804 Black Box 'Confirms Smoke'
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Egyptian aviation investigators confirmed a black box recording from EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo that plunged into the Mediterranean on May 19 and killed all 66 people aboard showed smoke onboard, BBC News reported Wednesday. Automated electronic messages sent by the plane had shown that smoke detectors went off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane disappeared....
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Pyonghattan Skyscrapers Arise Out Of Crippling North Korean Sanctions
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The last few years haven’t been good for North Korea as crippling sanctions and isolationism have caused the rogue country to turn inward and continue showing the world the country is doing fine.But now North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put his soldier-builders to work on yet another major project — a series of apartments and high-rises that are once again changing the Pyongyang skyline, The Associated Press reported Wednesday....
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Congress Sends Puerto Rico Debt Measure to Obama
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The Senate passed the bill to assist debt stricken Puerto Rico with a 68-30 vote, three weeks after the House backed the measure and two days before the island is to make a $2 billion payment to creditors according to The Associated Press. Obama has stated that he will sign the legislation quickly once Congress sent it his way ... U.S ... The legislation is set to create a board which would overlook the U.S ... - WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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$24 million cash stuffed in buckets recovered at suspected pot dealer’s home
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MIAMI — Miami-Dade police detectives raiding the home of a suspected marijuana trafficker unearthed at least $24 million in cash — all in bundles of $100 bills in heat-sealed bags stuffed in dozens of orange 5-gallon Home Depot-brand buckets. Authorities are still counting the money, most of which w... ....
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4th of July holiday food safety: Nix foodborne illness dangers at summer picnic
Edit The Examiner 30 Jun 2016
Food poisoning and foodborne illness are commonly linked to summer picnic food or holiday parties ... At a summer picnic, cookout or 4th of July holiday BBQ, the trick is to keep cold foods cold and hot foods hot ... Videos focus on cooking holiday dishes and summer picnic food safety ... Food storage important at a 4th of July summer picnic, cookout and outdoor BBQ....
4th of July Parade and Kids’ Day on Monday (City of San Gabriel, CA)
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(Source ... The San Gabriel community will celebrate Independence Day on Monday, July 4 with the annual 4th of July Parade and Kids' Day Picnic ... For the first time this year, there will also be a live band, Rock Bottom, playing music for picnic-goers to enjoy ... (noodl. 34332265) ....
With Brexit, the burden falls on young Britons
Edit Toronto Sun 30 Jun 2016
I have not lived in Britain since the early 1990s when, as Sun Media’s European bureau chief, I watched the country deal with the violent 20th anniversary of the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland, the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Scotland, the coming down of the Berlin Wall, the dismantling of the Soviet Union, and the final days of Margaret Thatcher as the country’s hardline prime minister....
Berkeley, A Look Back: World events set Independence Day tone in 1941
Edit Contra Costa Times 30 Jun 2016
Berkeley once again celebrated the Fourth of July in traditional style in 1941 with a 'safe and sane' civic gathering featuring a 'picnic, patriotic program and sports events for the children' at Live Oak Park, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported 75 years ago ... ....
Snapp Shots: Woodminster set for 50th season of musicals
Edit Contra Costa Times 30 Jun 2016
For many East Bay families, it's a long-standing tradition to enjoy a picnic in the park and then see a musical at Woodminster. Some season ticket holders have been sitting in the same seats for three generations. And they can always count on two things. a highly professional production and a fast-moving show that ends no later than 10.30 p.m ... ....
Veteran from North Huntingdon recalled as caring, mischievous
Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 30 Jun 2016
William Ressler enjoyed weekend visits with relatives and Sunday afternoon picnics at Keystone State Park after church. “We used to call my mom and dad ... ....
Greater Jakarta: Five parties won’t back independent candidate
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Those five are the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the Gerindra Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) ... Gerinda follow in second place with 15 seats. The PKS, PKB and PAN have 11, six and two seats, respectively, making 62 seats in total. The Jakarta Post. ....
Achilles Sends Amandio to King of Nations Drfit Championship 2016 in Japan (PT Multistrada Arah Sarana Tbk)
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King of Nations is the International drifting event which started since 2006 in European countries ... Runner Up RedBull Drift Gymkhana Battle in China, 2 Runner Up Asian Drifting Grand Prix (ADGP) 2015, Winner of Achilles Mogo Mogu Motorsport Festival (AMF) 2 series and Winner of Pan Delta Super Racing Festival 2016 which was held in China recently....
Adolph Blanck Park ready for kids to climb, swing or slide (Sunshine Coast Regional Council)
Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016Neighborhood Bistro: Marlow's Tavern
Edit Tampa Bay Times 30 Jun 2016
WHAT I ATE. I originally ordered the prime rib French dip, but was told they had just ran out. Instead, I went with the waiter's recommendation of the pan-seared barramundi (a type of Asian sea bass) served on quinoa with vegetables and a sesame soy glaze. The fish was mild, well seasoned, and paired nicely with the glaze and ... ....
06/29/16 Ala Moana Regional Park July 4th guidelines (City and County of Honolulu, HI)
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(Source. City and County of Honolulu, HI). Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Press Office. (808) 768-5768. Ala Moana Regional Park July 4th guidelines ... daily, but the city will allow one canopy and up to two people, but no vehicles, to remain overnight per site within the park, from July 3 to July 4, in order to establish picnic sites for the holiday celebration ... on July 4....
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