Merk Zsuzsa - Bálint Attila: Baja is town for 300 years - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 27. (Baja, 1999)

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The Statue was put up at the end of Oktober, 1956.

It was the first monument of '56. Designed by Sándor Eber Ir.

In early 1945, those deported to the Soviet Union for "malenkij robot", or forced labor, included not only prisoners of war but also civilians of ethnic German descent, many of them women. In accordance with the Potsdam agreement of the great powers, which reflected the principle of collective crime and collective penalty, the majority of ethnic Germans living in Hungary were forced to resettle in Germany. The city assembly of Baja objected to such collective criminalization of its German citizens, but achieved nothing. After World War II, Hungary belonged in the Soviet Union's sphere of influence; following the enforced Soviet patterns, Hungary started "to build socialism" - an experience that deeply infiltrated every segment of Hungary's economy, society and culture, as well as her everyday life. Even though the Smallholders' Party received more than half of all votes during the 1945 elections, by 1947, the communists took control of both legislation and government. The real change took place in 1948, when the Social Democrats merged with the Communist Party. After the change, the social democrats and all other so-called "bourgeois" parties lost the last remains of their power.

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