Another even longer tram and bus ride took us into the Buda hills and to Memento Park. After the fall of communism here, some enterprising souls gathered together what they could of the colossal communist monuments and statues and placed them all together in what is now called Memento Park. As with the Museum of Communism in Prague, this is all displayed with some humor, although the underlying story, especially of Hungarian resistance and rebellion, is tragic. But even the people who lived through it all seem able to laugh, a little, triumphantly now, at those years.
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"Our founders" (this is socialist realism?) |
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Comrade Lenin |
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Alas, most of it is untitled |
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But speaks volumes |
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Must be thirty feet high |
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Vicki made me do this; I have leftist sympathies, but not that left |
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"I am the Walrus"--Donnie, TBL |
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"Let's us Ruskies and Hungarians be pals, comrade" |
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Pretty well sums it up, machine gun and all |
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