Tag: Soviet-era statue park Hungary

  • Memento Park: A unique communism collection

    Memento Park: A unique communism collection

    I had the privilege of visiting Memento Park on the outskirts of Budapest recently. Memento Park is a unique museum in that it has actively kept statues from the time of Hungary’s occupation by the Soviet Union (1945-1990). Following the fall of the Soviet Union across 1989/90 most of the statues with a communist agenda…