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Memento Park (Hungarian: Szoborpark) is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989). [1]

38 relations: Ákos Eleőd, Béla Kun, Buda, Budapest, Budapest Keleti railway station, Dictatorship, Fallen Monument Park, Friedrich Engels, Gellért Baths, Georgi Dimitrov, Grand Boulevard (Budapest), Grūtas Park, Great Market Hall (Budapest), Hungarian National Museum, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungary, International Brigades, International Student Identity Card, Iuliu Ilyés, Jenő Landler, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kató Hámán, Ladislaus I of Hungary, List of sculpture parks, Lithuania, Mark Sarvas, Mauthausen, Oktogon (intersection), Pest, Hungary, Róbert Kreutz, Red Army, Stalin Monument (Budapest), Stephen I of Hungary, Tibor Szamuely, Vladimir Lenin, Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl.

Ákos Eleőd

Ákos Eleőd (born 28 October 1961, in Budapest) is a Hungarian architect responsible for designing Statue Park.

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Béla Kun

Béla Kun (20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938), born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician who was the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.

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Buda

Buda was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the west bank of the Danube.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Budapest Keleti railway station

Budapest Keleti (eastern) railway station (Budapest Keleti pályaudvar) is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary.

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Dictatorship

A dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.

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Fallen Monument Park

Muzeon Park of Arts (formerly the Park of the Fallen Heroes or Fallen Monument Park) is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the modern art division of Tretyakov Gallery and Central House of Artists.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.;, sometimes anglicised Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman.

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Gellért Baths

Part of the famous Hotel Gellért in Buda, the Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool (also known as the Gellért Baths or in Hungarian as the Gellért fürdő) is a bath complex in Budapest, Hungary.

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Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov (Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov (Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician.

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Grand Boulevard (Budapest)

Nagykörút or Grand Boulevard (sometimes Great Boulevard, lit. "Big Ring Road") is one of the most central and busiest parts of Budapest, a major thoroughfare built by 1896, Hungary's Millennium.

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Grūtas Park

Grūtas Park (unofficially known as Stalin's World; Grūto parkas) is a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues and an exposition of other Soviet ideological relics from the times of the Lithuanian SSR.

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Great Market Hall (Budapest)

The Great Market Hall or Central Market Hall (Hungarian "Nagyvásárcsarnok") is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest, Hungary.

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Hungarian National Museum

The Hungarian National Museum (Hungarian: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders such as Transylvania; it is not to be confused with the collection of international art of the Hungarian National Gallery.

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Hungarian People's Republic

The Hungarian People's Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist republic (communist state) from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989.

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Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (1956-os forradalom or 1956-os felkelés), was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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International Brigades

The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were paramilitary units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

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International Student Identity Card

The International Student Identity Card (ISIC) is a Discount card targeting full-time students, and offers discounts for travel, insurance, and various goods.

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Iuliu Ilyés

Iuliu Ilyés (born April 25, 1957 in Satu Mare) is a Romanian engineer and politician of Hungarian ethnicity.

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Jenő Landler

Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian Communist leader of Jewish roots.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Kató Hámán

Kató Hámán (2 December 1884 – 31 August 1936) was a Hungarian Esperanto and Communist activist.

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Ladislaus I of Hungary

Ladislaus I or Ladislas I, also Saint Ladislaus or Saint Ladislas (I or Szent László; Ladislav I.; Svätý Ladislav I; Władysław I Święty; 1040 – 29 July 1095) was King of Hungary from 1077 and King of Croatia from 1091.

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List of sculpture parks

This is a list of sculpture parks, by country.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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Mark Sarvas

Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, book reviewer, and blogger living in Los Angeles.

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Mauthausen

Mauthausen is a small market town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

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Oktogon (intersection)

Oktogon is one of Pest's major intersections, located at the junction of the Grand Boulevard (Nagykörút) and Andrássy Avenue (Andrássy út) in Budapest, Hungary.

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Pest, Hungary

Pest is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two thirds of the city's territory.

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Róbert Kreutz

Róbert Kreutz (3 January 1923 - 24 December 1944) was a Hungarian Communist born in Budapest.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Stalin Monument (Budapest)

The Stalin Monument in Budapest was completed in December 1951 as a gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarian People on his seventieth birthday.

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Stephen I of Hungary

Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen (Szent István király; Sanctus Stephanus; Štefan I. or Štefan Veľký; 975 – 15 August 1038 AD), was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first King of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038.

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Tibor Szamuely

Tibor Szamuely (December 27, 1890 – August 2, 1919) was a Hungarian politician and journalist who was Deputy People's Commissar of War and People's Commissar of Public Education during the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl

Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (Alsórajk 1884 - Budapest 1975) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Park

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