Memento Park

Liberation or occupation?

Liberation or occupation?


On April 4, 1945, the last Nazi German forces left Hungary. It became the date of liberation in Hungary and until 1989 it was a public holiday. At this stop you will learn how sculptors of the time depicted the liberating Soviet soldiers and how the interviewees remember liberation.

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