Boros Géza: Statue Park - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
The endless promenade dedicated to the ideas and events of the labour movement
figure make to someone coming from Rákóczi út? This was its main point of approach, you could simply not turn it in any other direction." The monumental pedestal made of granite has still not been removed. In 1991, the foundation stone of the Monument of) Reconciliation was laid by socialist politicians. The plaque of this disappeared in 1999. 39 . Monument of the Buda Volunteers’ Regiment (Mihály Mészáros, 197;) Comprising volunteers who organised themselves during the siege of Budapest in 1945, the Buda Volunteers' Regiment was the only Hungarian military unit to fight alongside Soviet troops, helping them oust the German occupiers of the capital. The negatives of soldiers charging ahead are impressed in the concrete block of the monument, which was brought here from Vörös Hadsereg útja (today Hűvösvölgyi út). The rough shape of the reinforced concrete and the dynamic composition are meant to convey the elementary ferociousness of the fight. On one side of the monument are Hungarian, on the other Russian soldiers fighting for the same goal. The two sides are connected by a red star breaking through the block as if in an explosion. When it came to deciding the fate of the monument, the greatest problem was caused by the five-pointed star rather than any controversy about the role played by the regiment or the aesthetic value of this unusually modern composition. ■ Monument of the Buda Volunteen' Regiment by Mihály Mészára. 1975 49
