Memento Park
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Park "Memento» (Memento) in Budapest - this open-air museum dedicated to the monumental sculpture of the communist era in Hungary (1949-1989), opened on 29 June 1993, the second anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary and Akos Eleeda created, who won the competition announced by the General Assembly of Budapest (municipal assembly) in 1991. The architect himself said about his creation: "This park is dedicated to the dictatorship and, at the same time, once we are able to speak and write about it - democracy. After all, in the end, only democracy provides an opportunity to speak freely about dictatorship."

  In the park you can see the statues of Lenin, Marx, Engels, and some of the Hungarian Communist leaders, monuments parlimentaire Ilya Ostapenko and Miklos Steinmetz, who died in 1944 - a total of 40 exhibits, dismantled and brought here after the fall of the communist regime in Hungary in 1989.

The Memento Park recreates the atmosphere of the communist era, you can see, for example, a typical old phone booth and the car production of the GDR «Trabant». In 2007, the park opened a new showroom and a small cinema. On the list of popular visitor photo exhibition entitled "Stalin's boots", as well as a documentary about the methods used by the secret police.

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