Rather than destroy statues of the hated former Communist regime, they have been grouped together in Statue Park outside Budapest. Hungary's first communist leader Béla Kun shares the space with Lenin, Marx and Engels, and a host of out-of-favour martyrs.
Budapest's Statue Park opened in 1993 and offers a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain. One of the most exciting outdoor museums in Eastern Europe, its Statue Park is the world's only such collection.
But there's more! The park includes a life-size replica of Stalin's Grandstand, once in central Budapest, which supported an eight-metre statue of Stalin but which, in the October 1956 revolt, was sawn off at Stalin's boots! Those very boots are on display in the Barrack-Exhibition. The park's architect Ákos Eleod has included his own tribute to various former eastern block countries in his Witness Square at the entrance, representing "Budapest's Széna Square in 1956, Prague's Wenceslas Square in 1968, Warsaw's Castle Square in 1981, Timisoara's Opera Square in 1989, Berlin's Potsdamer Square and Sophia's National Assembly Square."
There is also a film, The Life of an Agent, about hiding bugs, searching houses and recruitment methods, and for all your communist needs, there is the Red Star Store!