Memento Park

When a country has a regime change, particularly if the regime was known to be brutal, unsupported, and downright a bad idea, the usual response by the citizenry is to tear down and destroy all of the monuments that are reminders of the event.. In Budapest, they did tear down the statues from the communist regime, but instead of destroying them, they relocated them into a purpose, built park. The thought that went into the design of the Park was tremendous. The paths were in a figure 8, an infinity symbol, with all roads leading to a brick wall. And not a symbolic brick wall, but a literal brick wall. All the major communist figures were there, Stalin, Lenin, and several, specific to Hungary. We were excited to met up with our friends, Lanell and Omar for the tour, and although it was hot in the sun, there was no denying the solemnity of the park. It’s a strong country that can recognize the horrors of the past, and without celebrating those horrors, place the monuments in such a way as to remind everyone about the past, and that it is something that should never be repeated.Weiterlesen