The Picnic
An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
Berlín-Friedrichshain, dodací doba +7 dní
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Vintage Publishing
UK
2024
Oversized Paperback
304
Heavy
316328
978-1-84792-780-4
1-84792-780-7
Political activism
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Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of rumour, thousands of East German 'holiday-makers' had made their way to the border between Hungary and Austria, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The stage was set for the greatest border breach in Cold War history. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Union - the so-called end of history - all would flow from what happened next. Drawing on dozens of original interviews with those involved - activists and border guards, escapees and secret police, as well as the last Communist prime minister of Hungary - Matthew Longo reconstructs this world-shaping event and its tumultuous aftermath.
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