1945: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent”. Winston Churchill

1989: the curtain rises in Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other countries, to never descend again.

2019: 30 years have passed – Fantastic and touching open-air exhibition around the Queen Anne’s Summer Palace in the royal gardens of the Prague Castle to commemorate the events of 1989 throughout the once called “east block”.

Border crossing Kapitan Andrejevo, August 1989 ©Georgi Georgiev-Johny
Sofia, November 17th 1989 ©Ivan Grigorov
August 1989 ©Ferenc Rédei
Hegyeshalom, May 2nd 1989 ©Ferenc Rédei
Berlin, November 10th 1989 ©András Bankuti
Berlin, November 10th 1989 ©András Bankuti
Prague, Žitná Street, January 1989 ©Lubomír Kotek
Prague, August 21st 1989 ©András Bankuti
Warsaw, July 1989 ©Andrzej Iwanczuk