Boros Géza: Statue Park - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

The endless promenade dedicated to persons in the labour movement

■ Jrinoó Aiztaloi Plaque by litván Janói Nagy, 1968

■ Lenin Memorial Plaque by Iván Szabó. 1970

21. Béla Kun Plaque (Viktor Kalló, 1986)

Installed on the iooth anniversary of the birth of Béla Kun on the wall of the Csepel headquarters of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party in Tanácsház (today Szent Imre) tér by the City Council of Budapest, this plaque portrays the peoples' commissar addressing the workers of Csepel in 1919. Modelled on a photograph, the portrait reveals no sign of artistic inspiration; clearly, the intention of maker and commissioner alike was no more than to get the job done as smoothly as possible. The political considerations behind installing the plaque were not much more serious either; the central event of the centenary celebrations, the inauguration of a large Béla Kun monument in Buda, could not be left unaccompanied by a similar event held in a working-class district.

22 . Bust of Endre Ságvári (György Baksa Soós, 1949)

After 1945 several public spaces, youth organisations and educational institutions were named after this martyr of the communist resistance. Some schools

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