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Hungary: Budapest, Memento Park

The Medals of Colonial Power

These pins denoted membership in elite branches of the Communist Party that, even in a theoretically egalitarian society, marked the bearer as special.
Located on the highest hilltop above Budapest, it’s now an outdoor museum of the Communist era.

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The people’s car

The Trabant, underpowered and made of thin fiberglass, became the symbol of Communist collapse

Hungary’s brief revolt in 1956 was the earliest sign of Soviet vulnerability.
Why here? Because at this highest point above Budapest an enormous bronze Stalin towered over the city. Durig the 1956 revolution, the statue was cut down, leaving only these “Ozymandias legs.”
Soviet heroes
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