In the Shadow of Stalin's boots

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IN THE SHADOW OF STALIN'S BOOTS
VISITORS' GUIDE TO MEMENTO PARK
Thankfully, today, memorials of Lenin and Stalin, the proletariat dictatorship, commune, the pioneer movement, the Soviet takeover, communist state terror, personality cult, concentration camp, workers' militia, counter-revolution, Hungarian Socialist Republic, five-pointed red star, the underground communist movement, the one-party state, terrorisation, the iron curtain, ideological warfare the concepts of the recent past are all things of the past - the stuff of historical text books.
Not so long ago, all of these were the well-accustomed apparatus of the "living socialism", and a part of the everyday life of millions. In the same way, on the streets and in the squares, the sight of these oversized memorials to the autonomy and eternal truths of communism that were a requirement of the dictatorship belonged to the picture of city life in the Eastern Block, behind the Iron Curtain.
On the scale of history, all... Tovább

Fülszöveg

IN THE SHADOW OF STALIN'S BOOTS
VISITORS' GUIDE TO MEMENTO PARK
Thankfully, today, memorials of Lenin and Stalin, the proletariat dictatorship, commune, the pioneer movement, the Soviet takeover, communist state terror, personality cult, concentration camp, workers' militia, counter-revolution, Hungarian Socialist Republic, five-pointed red star, the underground communist movement, the one-party state, terrorisation, the iron curtain, ideological warfare the concepts of the recent past are all things of the past - the stuff of historical text books.
Not so long ago, all of these were the well-accustomed apparatus of the "living socialism", and a part of the everyday life of millions. In the same way, on the streets and in the squares, the sight of these oversized memorials to the autonomy and eternal truths of communism that were a requirement of the dictatorship belonged to the picture of city life in the Eastern Block, behind the Iron Curtain.
On the scale of history, all these disappeared in a flash, but for those who came afterwards, they serve as a lesson that is not without its traces: within the statue park that has been created in Memento Park, everybody can see the public works of art of this dangerous era and can feel the atmosphere of oppression that radiates from them.
The themes and history of these statues help us to understand the reasons why the communist dictatorship developed in Hungary, its history and its most important events and key figures, as well as all the connections that artificially kept the regime alive, and that finally forced its downfall.
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