Communist-era Subway Line in Budapest - Soon to Dissapear

In the late 1980’s, political and social visionaries like David Hasselhoff helped celebrate the fall of communism all over Europe. By 1989, the barbed-wire fence separating Austria and Hungary was torn down, creating the first meaningful break in the so-called Iron Curtain. People streamed across the border from Hungary into the “West”, and were introduced to the greener grass of capitalism for the first time in almost half a century.