Vladimir Lenin stands with Karl Marx and notable Hungarian communist leaders behind the austere brick walls of a unique, if not surreal, statue park museum up in the hilly southern suburbs of Budapest ...

BUDAPEST — On the periphery of Budapest is an open-air museum that houses the Communist-era statues that were toppled, along with the Soviet-installed regime, in 1989. Opened on June 29, 1993, on the ...

When the Soviet Union regime fell in Hungary in 1989, an interesting question arose for the population of the capital in Budapest: What do we do with all of the statues? The solution was to move many ...

Memento Park in Budapest is a fascinating museum which features dozens of statues from the country's communist past. Designed by the architect Akos Eleod, it opened in 1993, four years after the fall ...

After the fall of communism in Hungary, the new government was faced with a question: What to do with all the statues? Monuments to Marx, Lenin and other communist saints and heroes filled the country ...