Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Memento Park (Budapest)

One of the highlights of last year's Grand Tour was the opportunity to visit Budapest's Memento Park: a collection of statues and other relics from the Communist era. While I've already written about that day, I've yet to post the pics we took from our visit. Time to catch up to the future worker's paradise that never came!

Republic of Councils monument (Kiss István, 1969)

Soviet-Hungarian Friendship (Búza Barna, 1975)

Liberation Monument (Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond, 1947)

Liberation Monument (Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond, 1947)

Lenin (Pátzay Pál, 1965)

Lenin relief (Szabó Iván, 1970)

Béla Kun memorial (Varga Imre, 1986)

Republic of Councils Pioneers memorial plaque (1959)

"Stalin's boots" reproduction (Ákos Eleőd, 2006)

Soviet Heroic memorial (Mikus Sándor, 1970)

The Heroes of People's Power memorial (Kalló Viktor, 1983)

The Heroes of People's Power memorial (Kalló Viktor, 1983)

Unnamed sculpture awaiting installation

Unnamed sculpture awaiting installation
(Photographs by Andrew Wood)

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