Graveyard of Socialist Statuary: Memento Park

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Ah, the strong, clean lines of Social Realism! Memento Park, just outside Budapest, houses a collection of Socialist/ Communist statuary that formerly decorated the city in a solution to the problem of what to do with these markers of the Soviet past. Rather than destroy them or leave them where they were, some of the statues of Lenin (my personal favorite) and other heroes of the Soviet satellite state, were gathered here. Photos below, and my own ‘tribute’ to Lenin in video form here.

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One thought on “Graveyard of Socialist Statuary: Memento Park

  1. I can’t think of anything intelligent to say other than they are so strikingly different to anything I’ve ever been exposed to. Startlingly different, I guess.

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