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Hungary celebrates Berlin Wall anniversary

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Hungary celebrates Berlin Wall anniversary

Hungary is marking 20 years of the Pan-European Picnic, an event which helped bring the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Laszlo Solyom, the country’s president, and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, helped celebrate the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and communist rule.

Al Jazeera’s Richard Martin reports.