Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, here’s what recent history can tell us about Europe today
Published on: Wednesday 26 June 2019
The placid Hungarian city of Sopron (population: 62,246) is not as famous as it ought to be. For it was there, some three decades ago, that a short ceremony marked the end of the Iron Curtain and, in due course, the end of Soviet Russian occupation of eastern Europe, which led, a couple of years later, to the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of the
News source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sopron-iron-curtain-soviet-bloc-hungary-czechoslovakia-eu-a8976326.html
