Communism & After · event 6 of 9

September 1989

The border is opened. Hungary lets East German refugees cross to Austria, beginning the sequence that ends at the Berlin Wall two months later.

The Communism & After era

  1. 1949
  2. 23 October 1956
  3. 1958
  4. 1968
  5. 16 June 1989
  6. September 1989
  7. 23 October 1989
  8. 2004
  9. 2014

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