One of the most fascinating places we visited was Budapest’s Memento Park. After the fall of the USSR, and finally, by 1991, when the last Soviet soldier left Hungary, the propagandistic art of the Soviets was rounded up and sent to the outskirts of town. Hungarians were not interested in being constantly reminded of their …
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- This one is interesting because the statue has degraded and one can see the cheap foam that serves as the basis of the statue,
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- “Monument to the Martyrs of the Counter-Revolution.” He who writes the history gets to call the shots, right?
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- In this piece, the relief sculpture that was was erect is not on its side, recalling death. With Lenin sitting on one end–perhaps the death of communism?
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- Here is the missing soldier, now standing at attention at Memento Park. The Hungarians felt the automatic weapon strapped across his body was grossly incongruous with the other statuary.
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- Notice at the bottom of this statue on the pedestal there is a niche for a statue. It is noticeably absent.
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