Apparently, reaching for things was big with the Commies. I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the statues in Budapest’s Szoborpark [Memento Park] (the place where all the old rounded-up Commie artwork was taken to be scrutinized without being honored.) I assume they didn’t often catch what they were reaching for, or they wouldn’t have died out, having their art moved out to low-rent suburbs.
Taken in the Summer of 2002 at Szoborpark (Memento Park) on the outskirts of Budapest.
After the Cold War, the Hungarians gathered up a lot of the old Communist statues and a selection of them were put together in an open-air park called Szoborpark (Memento Park.)
Taken outside Budapest at the Statue Park in 2002
The Szoborpark, or Momento Park, is an open-air collection of Budapest’s old Communist-era statues. Needless to say, these statues were not popular, and many were probably rapidly destroyed when the Soviet strangle hold waned. However, a collection of these Lenins, Stalins, and their Hungarian equivalents (e.g. Béla Kun) remained. Furthermore, peppered into the collection were a few of images of the unknown “good soldier” and Stakhanovite workers, just to reinforce the notion that “all pigs are equal” (even if some are a little more so than others.) This one is the biggest of the lot. As I recall it stands about 2 stories high. The park is on the outskirts of town on the south side of the Buda (west) side of the Danube.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 