Statue Park

Displayed in the Park are 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989, including allegorical monuments of "Hungarian-Soviet Friendship" and "Liberation", as well as statues of famous personalities from the labour movement, soldiers of the Red Army and other gigantic pieces: Lenin, Marx, Engels, Dimitrov, Captain Ostapenko, Béla Kun and other "heroes" of the communist world. A favourite with visitors is the Liberation Army Soldier. A hammer-and-sickle flag in its hand and a cartridge-disc machine pistol hanging in its neck make the statue complete. This 6-meter tall statue of the evil-eyed Soviet soldier once stood on the top of Gellért Hill in central Budapest, well-seen from every direction.

When facing it, the main entrance bears the image of a monumental classicist building. Looking behind it, though, it resembles a 12-meter high, under-propped communistic scenery ? a perfect introduction into the nature of dictatorship.

The words of architect Ákos Eleőd, the conceptual designer of Memento Park serve as its motto: "This Park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described and built up, this Park is about democracy. After all, only democracy can provide an opportunity to think freely about dictatorship. Or about democracy, come to that! Or about anything!"

Statues:

The Wall behind the Scenes

1. Lenin

2. Marx, Engels

The path

The Endless Parade of Liberation Monuments

3. Liberation Monument

4. Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial

5. Liberation Monument

6. Liberation Memorial Stone

7. Soviet Heroic Memorial

8. Soviet-Hungarian Friendship

9. Soviet Heroic Memorial

10-11. Soviet Heroic Memorial

12. Soviet Heroic Memorial

The Endless Parade of Personalities of the Workers' Movement

13. Lenin Relief

14. Dimitrov

15. Dimitrov

16. Béla Kun, Jenő Landler, Tibor Szamuely Memorial

17. Lenin

18. József Kalamár Bust

19. János Asztalos Memorial Plaque

20. Róbert Kreutz Memorial Plaque

21. Béla Kun Memorial Plaque

21. Béla Kun Memorial Plaque

22. Endre Ságvári Bust

23. The Árpád Szakasits

24. The Béla Kun Memorial

25. Ferenc Münnich

26. Ede Chlepkó Bust

27. Kálmán Turner Memorial Plaque

28. The Kató Hámán Memorial Plaque

The Unending Promenade of Worker's Movement Concepts

29. Workers' and Soldiers' Council Memorial Plaque

30. The Display of the Worker s Militia Monument

31. Workers' Movement Memorial

32. The Hungarian Fighters' in the Spanish International Brigades' Memorial

33. Republic of Councils Monument

34. The Republic of Councils Pioneers Memorial Plaque

35. Hungarian Communist Party Memorial Plaque

36. Hungarian Communist Party Printing House Memorial Plaque

37. The Heroes of Peoples' Power Memorial

38. Martyrs Monument

39. The Buda Volunteers Regiment Memorial

40. Captain Steinmetz

41. Ostapenko

The Road and the End Wall