Soviet Statue Park
Written by John Reality, Cambodia, March 2012
RECOMMENDATION Keywords:
Cultural Experience,
Good Views / Viewpoint,
Park / Garden
Comment from John Reality
Like many denizens of former Soviet satellites, the citizens of Hungary were anxious to bring down the figurative symbols of communist rule as well as their military and political apparatus after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Unlike other recently liberated populaces, however, Hungarians stole their former overlords’ symbolic thunder by removing, relocating, and re-appropriating the many statues, sculptures and public art installations depicting Soviet leaders, mythology, and propagandistic slogans that once littered the fair city of Budapest.
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