Hungary is a mess. I remember how happy they were when the East Berlin Wall came down. Finally no more Iron Curtain. They wanted to be a Democracy so bad. What happened there to make it an autocracy? Why does the Republican Party hold Hungary up as an example? How did we get here?
You very clearly misremember things. Along with Austria with removed our section of the iron curtain. This took the Stasi so much by surprise that the so called Plattensee Kommando usually set to observe east Germans interacting with west Germans suddenly got overwhelmed in may 89.
7 months before the wall came down the stasi suddenly needed to hide because under the guise of Western Reporters Western intelligence flocked into Hungary. The GDR scrambled to revoke visas to Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Their original hope was to force hundreds back to the GDR and then close the country off. This conflicted with reality and on October 89 the stasi used water cannons to keep off people from the Sonderzug they allowed to leave for west Germany. You ask what changed.
The same thing that changed in east Germany. After decades of sporadic visits most easterners only had contact to direct family. Nobody spoke of Gastarbeiter. Suddenly the conspiracy started to spread that these people will replace Europeans
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