Pan-European Picnic
1989 peace demonstration held on the Austro-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary
Pan-European Picnic
The Pan-European Picnic (German: Paneuropäisches Picknick; Hungarian: Páneurópai piknik; Slovak: Paneurópsky piknik; Czech: Panevropský piknik) was a peace demonstration held on the Austro-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary, on 19 August 1989. The opening of the border gate between Austria and Hungary at the Pan-European Picnic was an event in the chain reaction, at the end of which Germany reunified, the Iron Curtain fell apart, and the Eastern Bloc disintegrated. The communist governments and the Warsaw Pact subsequently dissolved, ending the Cold War. The idea of opening the border at a ceremony and testing the Soviet Union's response came from Ferenc Mészáros of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) and Otto von Habsburg, then the President of the Paneuropean Union and the former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. The idea was brought up by them to Miklós Németh, then the Hungarian prime minister, who also promoted the idea. The Pan-European Picnic itself developed further from a meeting...
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