This was a significant step in the fall of the Soviet Empire. lending impetus to Hungarys internal liberalization. Over the summer of 1989. Hungary began to dismantle its part of the Iron Curtain on its western border. In September 1989. Hungary opened the border for East German refugees to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany. This action sparked the exodus of East Germans to the West. and ignited a revolution in East Germany that later spread to Czechoslovakia. It led directly to the fall of the Wall. an event most Americans never expected to see in their lifetimes. and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. an even more improbable event.
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