Rocking the Iron Curtain: How Queen’s 1986 Budapest concert cracked the Soviet Bloc

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The British rock band Queen's 1986 concert in Budapest attracted 80,000 attendees and symbolically challenged the Soviet Iron Curtain. The event is remembered as a significant cultural moment signaling the beginning of increased openness in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

On 27 July 1986, a concert by British rock band Queen in Budapest symbolically tore down the Iron Curtain. A crowd of 80,000 filled the People's Stadium to feel the first wave of freedom. The band's official photographer Denis O'Regan recalls that night in an exclusive interview with Euronews.