![Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 | Cold war | The Guardian Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 | Cold war | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e0bff07e83ae022c01a032fd7fb0f06bd8067efa/0_0_1302_1019/master/1302.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 | Cold war | The Guardian
![Alois Mock and Gyula Horn open the Iron Curtain between Austria and Hungary (27 June 1989) - CVCE Website Alois Mock and Gyula Horn open the Iron Curtain between Austria and Hungary (27 June 1989) - CVCE Website](https://www.cvce.eu/content/publication/2006/4/19/2ba3e3b3-56db-4b73-907e-0cd8fb580604/publishable.jpg)
Alois Mock and Gyula Horn open the Iron Curtain between Austria and Hungary (27 June 1989) - CVCE Website
![Communist Era Watchtower at the Iron Curtain on Austrian Hungary Border Stock Photo - Image of tourism, tourist: 138756570 Communist Era Watchtower at the Iron Curtain on Austrian Hungary Border Stock Photo - Image of tourism, tourist: 138756570](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/communist-era-watchtower-iron-curtain-austrian-hungary-border-communist-era-watchtower-iron-curtain-austria-138756570.jpg)
Communist Era Watchtower at the Iron Curtain on Austrian Hungary Border Stock Photo - Image of tourism, tourist: 138756570
![Hungarian border guards cut a hole into the "Iron Curtain," May 2, 1989, opening its border with Austria and the west near Hegyeshalom, some 50 kilometers east of Vienna. Hungary began dismantling its border fortifications. (AP Photo/Bernhard J. Holzner ... Hungarian border guards cut a hole into the "Iron Curtain," May 2, 1989, opening its border with Austria and the west near Hegyeshalom, some 50 kilometers east of Vienna. Hungary began dismantling its border fortifications. (AP Photo/Bernhard J. Holzner ...](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NF8PTF/hungarian-border-guards-cut-a-hole-into-the-iron-curtain-may-2-1989-opening-its-border-with-austria-and-the-west-near-hegyeshalom-some-50-kilometers-east-of-vienna-hungary-began-dismantling-its-border-fortifications-ap-photobernhard-j-holzner-2NF8PTF.jpg)
Hungarian border guards cut a hole into the "Iron Curtain," May 2, 1989, opening its border with Austria and the west near Hegyeshalom, some 50 kilometers east of Vienna. Hungary began dismantling its border fortifications. (AP Photo/Bernhard J. Holzner ...
![Map my papa had of western Hungary when he snuck across to Austria across the iron curtain. 1956. He tore it out of a book. : r/Maps Map my papa had of western Hungary when he snuck across to Austria across the iron curtain. 1956. He tore it out of a book. : r/Maps](https://i.redd.it/4d2mrosxdel71.jpg)
Map my papa had of western Hungary when he snuck across to Austria across the iron curtain. 1956. He tore it out of a book. : r/Maps
![Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 | Cold war | The Guardian Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 | Cold war | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a78b47d5ca3d6994c04be3d675b7c71e22a71c87/0_79_2953_1771/master/2953.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=8fcdb4d2754f78f1cb44f2057aa7d074)