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Peeking through the Iron Curtain

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Exactly 20 years ago Hungarian border guards began dismantling the physical barrier along the Hungarian-Austrian border known as the Iron Curtain. Novelist Tibor Fischer, whose family is from Hungary, discusses the collapse of the communist system in the region.

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