Memento Park

The Szoborpark ( Statue Park, Memento Park also ) is located in the south-west of the Hungarian capital Budapest. It was opened in 1993 and comprises a designed Akos Eleöd collection of monuments from the period of real socialism.

He goes back to an idea of the Hungarian literary historian László Szörényi. This struck on July 5, 1989, in the newspaper Hitel to create a " Lenin garden " in which all Lenin statues and busts of Hungary should be gathered. Today's system implemented this intention only in some small way, for the relics of the communist era were indeed " privatized " by the turn often collectible, and informal. However, some of the most prominent statues of the period before 1989 are here in an ironic post- modern presentation assembled: such as the Lenin of Doja Street, where the large Maiaufmärsche led by; Marx and Engels, who once stood in front of the building of the Socialist Workers Party; the Soviet soldier from the Liberation Monument on Gellert Hill; Lenin of the metal works of Csepel and once on the edge of the City Park ( City Park ) in a storm accompanied by step hurrying representatives of the revolutionary Soviet Republic. The Budapest Statue Park provides a highly civilized example of distancing and yet preserving dealing with unwelcome evidence of the past.