“In spring 1989, Hungary began dismantling its fortified border with Austria. A few months later, the first crack in the Iron Curtain opened when hundreds of East Germans fled across the Austrian-Hungarian border…It was in Hungary where “the first stone was removed from the Berlin Wall,” then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reminded his fellow Germans when he spoke in Berlin on Oct. 4, 1990, the day after German reunification” See:
On July 7, 2015 The Hungarian Parliament overwhelming approved the construction of a boarder fence to hinder asylum seekers from crossing their boarder with Serbia. See: