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Weekend Slideshow: Budapest’s Memento Park

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

As you near the suburbs of Budapest, there’s a nondescript little gravel-lined park surrounded by brick walls. Inside, there’s a stunning display of the creepy statues, monuments, and memorials the Soviet Union put up around the city during its half-century of occupation. Most East European cities destroyed the Soviet relics, or melted them down to make new monuments. In Budapest they preserved them, and gave them a home in the midst of some ugly suburban sprawl. It’s a remarkable little site.

(Click on the slideshow twice for full-screen.)

 

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6 Responses to “Weekend Slideshow: Budapest’s Memento Park”

  1. #1 |  JS |  August 13th, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Damn no wonder people were so depressed in those communist countries.

  2. #2 |  xenia onatopp |  August 13th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Perhaps I spent too much time in the nineties on the N64, because all I can think of is the Statue Park level of the game GoldenEye.

    What? You thought my name was merely a movie reference?

  3. #3 |  JS |  August 13th, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    That was an awesome video game xenia! Damn I miss 64!

  4. #4 |  Ken |  August 13th, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    OK, for the South Park photo at the end I can only think that it should’ve been Trotsky and maybe an ice pick instead of the sickle & hammer.

  5. #5 |  jb |  August 14th, 2011 at 12:09 am

    That’s pretty awesome. Also, I suggested going there in your Budapest bleg post from a while back, so glad to see you took the suggestion.

  6. #6 |  Sandhillpam |  August 14th, 2011 at 6:59 am

    Great slideshow!

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