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

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

moted the importance of the armed forces jealously guarding the country’s peace, always ready to protect the carefree growth of its children from any external threat. Works like this were meant to serve the preparation of a cadre of young people to defend the fatherland. Following demolition in the early sixties of the Socialist-Realist construction, the relief was dismantled, its parts being transferred to various military establishments. These two pieces were first taken to a barracks in Buda. In 1969 they were transferred, as a gift of the army, to the courtyard of the elementary school at Pasaréti út 191-193. Re-erected here, the relief was supplemented with a plaque featuring the date 1919 in reference to the earliest beginnings of the communist-style pioneers' movement.

35- Memorial Plaque of the Ferencváros Cell of the Communist Party

of Hungary (1959)

Faded to snow-white by now, the plaque used to mark the spot where stood the building housing the Ferencváros Cell of the Communist Party of Hungary at the time it was formed. In the same spot today there is another plaque commemorating the execution, after 1956, of the Ferencváros-based revolutionary, István Angyal.

36. Memorial Plaque of the Printing Press Owned by the Communist Party of Hungary (1955)

Keeping alive the memory of communist predecessors was among the political duties of social organisations in the Rákosi and Kádár era. The National

■ Memorial Devoted to the Memory of the Heroet oh the People's Power by Viktor Kalló, 1983

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