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In 1989, with thousands of East Germans fleeing to the West via Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, the country was swept up in the wave of eastern European revolutions unleashed by the reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Horse-riders won’t be disappointed either; the Hungarians have been known for their equestrian prowess ever since the Magyars swept over the Great Plain.
As we all know, he swept to a fantastic victory that November.
These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.
I was waltzing around Seattle earlier this summer when the political candidates swept through The Unity Conference-the big confab of black, Latino, and Asian journalists.