In what year did the East German/ Prague Refugee Crisis take place?

• A. 1968
• B. 1979
• C. 1989
• D. 1953

Answer: (C)

This is about a surge of East German refugees moving through Prague as the Eastern Bloc began to collapse. In 1989, reform movements across Eastern Europe loosened travel restrictions, and thousands of East Germans sought asylum via Czechoslovakia, with Prague serving as a gateway to West Germany. This mass exodus helped signal the impending end of the East German regime and preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall later that year.

1968 is linked to the Prague Spring and its suppression, not a refugee crisis. 1953 relates to an East German uprising and crackdown, not the Prague-based refugee flow. 1979 involves other Cold War events and not this refugee situation. So, the year of the East German/Prague Refugee Crisis is 1989.