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Europe's Iron Curtain remembered

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Twenty years ago the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe for four decades began to collapse.

Hungarian border guards began dismantling the physical barrier along the Hungarian-Austrian border and within three months, the communist system collapsed throughout the region.

Brian Hanrahan reports.

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