After the failed Hungarian Revolt of 1956 many Hungarians fled their country. Many Dutch people were eager to help the refugees, including the parents of Geert Mak.
Many European colonies reclaim their independence after WWII ended. However, in a famous speech French president De Gaulle says: "L'Algerie, c'est la France".
Hagen Koch, a former Stasi agent, shows the spot where he painted a thick white line on the street. The line marked the spot where the famous Berlin Wall was to be built.
Geert Mak himself is the ideal main character to tell something about the 60's. In 1965 he moved from the rural Dutch province Friesland to the restless and cheerful capital: Amsterdam.
The Portuguese dictatorship was brought to an end in 1974 through a military coup. Young soldiers, who fought in the wars in the Portuguese colonies, laid the ground works for the Carnation Revolution.
1984 was a crucial year for the British miners and the British Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher. In that year it would be decided who was ruling Britain: the unions or the Prime Minister.
In 1989, on Christmas Day, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were brutally executed. Romania was not at all prepared for the free market system that followed after the death of the dictator.
Stanislav Shuskevitsj was a professor at the Unitversity of Minsk in Belarus. On a drunken night his friends persuaded him to run for office. He kept his word, and to his surprise he was elected Supreme Soviet of Belarus.
Goran Trkulja, a Bosnian Serb, fled his country in 1992 during the Bosnian War. He was a journalist but this line of work was becoming perilous in his country. Goran went to the Netherlands.
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