AROUND BUDAPEST
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Oct 4, 2003 - This is the cemetery that is near our flat. We drive by it everyday and always talk about going through there 'someday'. We chose the first drizzly gray day to go wander around.
It's a very pretty cemetery, lots of trees, lots of benches, all different types of headstones and plot markers. It's huge (no I won't make the joke about how people are just dying to get in there)!
Oct 12, 2003 - We finally made it back out to Statue Park - Szorborpark!
While Hungary was under communist rule these statues stood around Budapest and after the political change they were brought out to this outdoor museum (it opened June 29, 1993, the second anniversary of the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Hungarian territory).
The statue on the right is Lenin, Mackenzie didn't want to stand there since she said he was a 'mean guy' so that's why she looks so happy! There are no statues of Stalin here since the one in Budapest was brought down and destroyed by the Hungarians during the revolution of 1956. The Statue on the left is the Matryrs Monument (on the promenade of the Workers Movement).
The Béla Kun Memorial on the left and The Republic of Councils Monument on the right.
These are both Liberation Monuments.
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