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Events on Tuesday 2 May 1989 1
1989Hungary opens Iron Curtain borderHungary begins dismantling its border fence with AustriaHungarian authorities started removing the barbed-wire fence along the border with Austria, physically breaching the Iron Curtain. Thousands of East Germans used the opening to flee to the West in the following months. The move accelerated the collapse of Communist governments across the region.