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Like the Maldives Islands

(A guided tour that you could never get from a tourist company…). Like the Maldives Islands. Some disappearing parts of Budapest, Hungary. The Millennium monument covered by red carpet on 1 May 1919. The building of our office in the fifties. The only Stalin statue i n Budapest.

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Like the Maldives Islands

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  1. (A guided tour that you could never get from a tourist company…) Like the Maldives Islands Some disappearing parts of Budapest, Hungary

  2. The Millennium monument covered by red carpet on 1 May 1919

  3. The building of our office in the fifties

  4. The only Stalin statue in Budapest

  5. The head of the Stalin statue on the streets of Budapest in 1956

  6. Past and present faces of Budapest: Elisabeth bridge

  7. Past and present faces of Budapest: Széchenyi thermal bath

  8. Past and present faces of Budapest: Opera

  9. Theiresias the blind oracle and his dog. (The stick was stolen twicefrom his hand.)

  10. My favourite Hungarianpoet Attila József (1905-1937) on Kossuth square. He was standing at the same place where his statue is now. (see next)

  11. You could see the lower part of the GyörgyAndrássy (1823–1890) statue behind the poet. He was the Prime Minister of Hungary 1867-71.

  12. Attila József by László Marton (1980) )

  13. Sovereign FerencRákóczi II. (1676-1735) by János Pásztor (1937)

  14. Imre Nagy (Prime Minister in the 1956 revolution) by Tamás Varga (1996)

  15. Imre Nagy looks at the Parliament (Sculptor: Tamás Varga/1996/)

  16. Memorial of the 25 October 1956 volley by Ferenc Callmeyer who was one of the survivor of that gun-fight

  17. The ethernal light of the 1956 revolution by Mária Lugossy (1996)

  18. LajosKossuth by Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (1952) the side figures are real socialist-realistic characters: worker + peasant + intelligentsia (poet)

  19. This was the previous LajosKossuth sculpture on the same place

  20. Mihály Károlyi by Imre Varga (1975) The “Red baron”, the first President of the first Hungarian republic, who distributed his own land to the peasants.

  21. Just a look behind the fences. The recent government hates the one who liked the poor people.

  22. All the green trees have been cut out first.

  23. Mihály Károlyi has to disappear!?

  24. István Bibó by Széri Varga Géza (2005) A prominent figure of the 1956 revolution: the member of the Imre Nagy government in 1956. As a minister he was the first „voice” against the Russian invasion. He is considered to be one of the most significant democratic political thinker of the 20th century.

  25. Shoes on the River Danube by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay (2005) Memorial of the Budapest victims' shot to the river Danube by the fascist militia in World War II. (Erected on 16. April 2005. = on the Holocaust Memorial Day)

  26. The „Buchwald chairs – people had to pay for them if they wanted to have a rest on the Promenade.

  27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g26StE8N60 „HAPCI” - one of the 7 pleasure-boats listen to this song by Emil Rulez Band!

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