The Rise and Fall of the German Communist Party

People started to feel a little, a little close, a little less fearful of assembling. And so that led Hungary because they, like all eastern block nations, had a closed border with their neighbor to the west, which was Austria. They said, you know what? It's 1989. We're going to start allowing people to get into Austria. If you could get into Hungary, then you could go to Austria and presumably anywhere else you wanted to.