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

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

3 2 . Monument to Hungarian Fighters in the Spanish International Brigades (Agamemnon Makrisz, 1970)

Erected in Néphadsereg (today Honvéd) tér, this monument consists of three bronze figures and some roughly hewn stone blocks which represent three marching volunteers as they salute the memory of their fallen comrades. Carved into the stone blocks are the names of the battles where Hungarian volunteers of the brigades fought for the Spanish Republican government against the soldiers of General Franco.

According to Gábor Ö. Pogány, the "rigid stone barricade and the gnarled lettering of the inscription are there to suggest the inevitably tragic outcome of the unequal fight; the structured build of the hardy freedom fighters and the solidity of their file symbolise that firmness of conviction, that unbending will which

■ Monument to Hungarian Fighters in the Spanish International Brigades by Agamemnon Makrisz, 1970

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