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

The endless promenade dedicated to the ideas and events of the labour movement

Münich monument, but in the end it was an activists of Fidesz who found an 'environmentally sound’ way of neutralising the star by replanting its arms. Under Act XLV of 1993, the five-pointed red star, along with the Hungarian Arrow- Cross and the swastika symbols, were outlawed as totalitarian symbols whose pub­lic display, unless for academic or artistic purposes, was decreed punishable by law. The endless promenade dedicated to the ideas and events of the labour movement Leaving the star-shaped flower-bed, we arrive at the third endless promenade, where 'theory manifests itself in concrete concepts' (people's power, the workers’ militia, the Soviet Republic, etc.). 29. Plaque of the Soldiers’ and Workers’ Soviet (1959) Following the example set by the Soviet Union, the Soldiers' and Workers’ Soviet acted as the governing body of the 1919 Dictatorship of the Hungarian Proletariat. 39

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