It was a mostly sunny day today so I took advantage of that and wandered off in search of Commies and NAZIs.
“Memento Park” in the Budapest suburbs contains a bunch of the old commie statues, etc. that used to grace the city before The Wall came down.
An assorted bunch of characters:
I like this one. The Hungarian is clasping in gratitude with both hands the single hand of the Russian. Meanwhile the Russian’s other hand is a clinched fist. Finally the Russian is the taller one. None too subtle hints, eh?
The nose, always the nose, since Ancient Rome and Greece. The nose goes!
“He’s back, back against the wall, he…..makes the catch!
What great piece:
Miss Pavlochenko?
It seems every Eastern Block country has a KGB museum. Most times they are in the building that the KGB and/or local equivalent used to detain and torture folks. (Or, are will still calling it “enhanced interrogation” these days?)
Alas, Budapest’s “House of Terror” is closed for maintenance. But on the outside they have a bunch of these little cameos of former victims.
Now, for the NAZIs, to quote Wiki:
“Shoes on the Danube Bank…to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes (shoes were valuable and could be stolen and resold by the militia after the massacre), and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away.”
