[history] 20 years ago in Hungary - Nagyon köszönöm Arpad Bella!
On August 19th 1989 Hungarian border guard Arpad Bella opposed the firing-order (only if attacked, but a firing-order nonetheless) of his government, when hundreds of GDR citizens crossed the Hungarian-Austrian border in order to flee to Austria - into freedom. [read more...]
I'm bathed in goosebumps every single time I see pics and vids of these days 20 years ago and this day in Hungary was a further very important milestone for the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall.
I'll be forever grate- and thankful that not a single shot was fired, that this mass escape didn't cause a war and that today, 20 years later, I live in a peaceful, prospering country (that's whole again) in the middle of a peaceful Europe.
So, nagyon köszönöm (thank you very much), Arpad Bella, you are a true hero to me! ❤