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Anniversary of Hungary's 'Picnic'

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People in Hungary are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the country's borders opening to the non-communist West.

The "Pan-European Picnic" allowed hundreds of people to cross from Eastern Europe to the west, and paved the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall three months later.

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