Thirty years ago on Monday Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed pe...
SOPRON, Hungary - Thirty years ago on Monday Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed people from communist East Germany to cross freely into Austria and hundreds of them rejoiced. The Iron Curtain was passing into history.
But Hungary, the first country to dismantle the east-west frontier, was also the first to fortify its southern border against a big new influx of Asian and African immigrants. The immigration issue threw a wrench into the usually close ties between Hungary and Germany, since Orban clashed with the views of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who initially threw the gates open to migrants.In Europe, opinions are divided on these new barriers. For some of those whose lives were changed forever by their chance to flee to the West, they are a calamity.
“High as these walls may be, they will never deter people,” Hermann Pfitzenreiter said. “What you see in the pictures can’t be put into words. We could not believe it was happening, it was total ecstasy, it had been unthinkable.”THIS FENCE IS NOT THAT FENCE “I could confront them and risk violence, or let them through and face the consequences,” he said at the memorial park now on that spot. He chose the latter. “Every border guard was sick of the task... We just wanted them gone.”
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