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of revolt was erected in its place for the 50th
anniversary of the Uprising, in 2006.
The Bloody Thursday Memorial, a short stroll
from Parliament, commemorates the clash
between Soviet troops and Hungarian students
with large cast-iron pellets that represent
the bullets, which marred the façade of the
Agriculture Ministry on Kossuth tér in 1956.
A few steps away, former Prime Minister Imre
Nagy – whose attempts at liberal reform of the
communist system enraged Hungary’s Soviet
masters – is immortalized in a statue near the
southeast corner of Kossuth tér at Vértanúk
tere. Nagy was convicted of treason and secretly
executed after the revolution.
Communist statues
Socialist statues celebrating youth, sport, study
and combat are somewhat inconspicuously
displayed along the Avenue of Youth, next to
Ferenc Puskás Stadium. While a little further
afield, Memento Park on the western outskirts
of town, is home to many of the hulking
communist symbols that were quickly moved
beyond the city limits following the fall of
communism in 1989.
Hop on a trolley
Most of these sites can be reached on Budapest’s
legendary red trolley buses, Soviet-era
relics that first took to the streets in 1949 in