1989

When 40-year-old Miklós Neméth was appointed as the prime minister of Hungary, he was immediately face to face with difficult decisions. The state economy was in a very bad way, and the maintaining the border control apparatus—the so-called "Iron Curtain"—on Hungarian boarder to Austria was eating away a large piece of the state budjet. Neméth made a decision that led to the dramatic events of 1989 in Europe and finally to the fall of the Berlin wall: he decided to open the boarder.
Katri Tenhola (DocPoint)