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"A Germany divided in two was the most tangible symbol of the absurdity and inhumanity of a bipolar world. Without the reunification of Germany, the reunification of Europe and the enlargement of 2004 and 2007 would not have taken place either. No other people in Europe empathised more with Germany’s artificial and absurd division than the people of Hungary. Europe’s reunification started with the reunification of the German nation. The fall of the Berlin wall also brought down the wall separating a Europe divided by the Cold War. As a Hungarian, I am particularly proud that my country’s leaders at the time took the brave and daring decision to allow the several tens of thousands of citizens of the German Democratic Republic who fled to Hungary to cross the iron curtain into Austria. They cancelled the treaty between Hungary and the GDR, thereby knocking the first brick out of the Berlin Wall. Gyula Horn, the then Foreign Minister of Hungary, and Prime Minister, Miklós Németh, performed an historic act, which could not have taken place without the reformist efforts of Mikhail Gorbachev."@en1
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