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Stalin Monument In Budapest
Monument
The monument was erected on the edge of Vrosliget, the city park of Budapest. The large monument stood 25 meters tall in total. The bronze statue stood eight meters high on a four meters high limestone base on top of a tribune eighteen meters wide. Stalin was portrayed as a speaker, standing tall and rigid with his right hand at his chest. The sides of the tribune were decorated with relief sculptures depicting the Hungarian people welcoming their leader. The Hungarian sculptor, Sndor Mikus, created the statue and was awarded the Kossuth Prize, the highest distinction that can be attained by a Hungarian artist.
Background
The Stalin monument was built during the classical period of Socialist Realism, the official art of Stalinism, which was a tool to instill the ideology of the Party into the people. This realistic and didactic aesthetic style celebrated the hard working proletariat and especially the cult of personality surrounding figures like Lenin, Stalin and other Eastern European Communist leaders.
Stalin statues sprung up everywhere in Eastern Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were cult objects that demonstrated the almost mystical powers of Stalin. Upon the completion of the Stalin statue, a journalist in Budapest said:
"Stalin was with us earlier; now he will be with us even more. He will watch over our work, and his smile will show us the way. I have been told that in Moscow it is customary to pay a visit to Comrade Lenin in Red Square before beginning, or after finishing, an important task, either to report or to ask his advice. Undoubtedly the same will occur here with the state of Comrade Stalin."
The monument not only demonstrated Stalin power, but the power of the Hungarian Working People's Party as well. Directly across from Stalin monument was MMOSZ, the house of the builder union, condemned for its modernist architecture influenced by the West.
After the death of Stalin in 1953 Socialist Realism went into decline, in connection with the political changes, initiated Khrushchev in 1956, at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when he denounced Stalin's cult of personality.
Destruction
On October 23, 1956, around two hundred thousand Hungarians gathered in Budapest to demonstrate in sympathy for the Poles who had just gained political reform during the Polish October. The Hungarians broadcast sixteen demands over the radio, one of them being the dismantling of Stalin's statue. A hundred thousand Hungarian revolutionaries demolished the Stalin statue, leaving only his boots, in which they planted a Hungarian flag. The bronze inscribed name of the Hungarians' leader, teacher and "best friend" was ripped off from the pedestal. Before the toppling of the statue, someone had placed a sign over Stalin's mouth that read "RUSSIANS, WHEN YOU RUN AWAY DON'T LEAVE ME BEHIND!" The revolutionaries chanted "Russia go home!" while pulling down the statue. .C. and other insulting remarks were scrawled over the fragmented parts of the statue.
The account of the incident by Sandor Kopacsi, head of Budapest police: "[The demonstrators] placed [...] a thick steel rope around the neck of the 25-metre tall Stalin statue while other people, arriving in trucks with oxygen cylinders and metal cutting blowpipes, were setting to work on the statue bronze shoes. [...] An hour later the statue fell down from its pedestal."
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Present
The site of the former Stalin Monument is now occupied by the Monument of the 1956 Revolution, completed in 2006 for the 50th anniversary of the historic event.
A life-sized copy of the tribune was built in the Statue Park with the broken bronze shoes on top of the pedestal in 2006. This is not an accurate copy of the original but only an artistic recreation by sculptor kos Eled.
References
^ Sinko, Katalin. "Political Rituals: the Raising and Demolition of Monuments." Art and Society in the Age of Stalin. Ed. Peter Gyorgy and Hedvig Turai. Budapest: Corvina Books, 1992. 81.
^ Aman, Anders. Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe During the Stalin Era. Cambridge, MA: The MIT P, 1992. 195.
Bibliography
Aman, Anders. Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe During the Stalin Era. Cambridge, MA: The MIT P, 1992.
Bown, Matthew C. Art Under Stalin. Oxford: Phaidon P Limited, 1991. 73-86.
Demaitre, Ann. "The Great Debate on Socialist Realism." The Modern Language Journal 50.5 (1966): 263-268. 2.0.CO;2-3?
Sinko, Katalin. "Political Rituals: the Raising and Demolition of Monuments." Art and Society in the Age of Stalin. Ed. Peter Gyorgy and Hedvig Turai. Budapest: Corvina Bookk, 1992. 81.
Terras, Victor. "Phenomenological Observations on the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism" The Slavic and East European Journal 22.4 (Winter, 1979), pp. 445-457. 2.0.CO;2-5>
See also
History of Hungary
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Joseph Stalin
On the Personality Cult and its Consequences
Polish October
Socialist Realism
Stalin's Monument (Prague)
Stalinism
External links
Day by day account of the 1956 Revolution
American Hungarian Foundation's 1956 Site with Photos/Audio/Video
Reflection of BBC's Reporting of the Hungarian Revolution
Continuance of Stalin's cult of personality in Georgia
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Joseph Stalin
Politics
Early life Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War Rise The Stalin Era as Soviet Leader Collectivization in the Soviet Union World War II Molotovibbentrop Pact Winter War Occupation of the Baltic states Soviet invasion of Poland Germanoviet Axis talks Sovietapanese Neutrality Pact Tehran Conference Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Cold War Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Eastern Bloc Titotalin split
Concepts
Stalinism Neo-Stalinism Socialism in One Country Socialist realism Stalinist architecture Aggravation of class struggle under socialism Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature
Controversies
Great Purge Holodomor Gulag Decossackization Population transfer in the Soviet Union Forced settlements in the Soviet Union Soviet war crimes Rootless cosmopolitan Doctors' plot Moscow Trials Allegations of antisemitism NKVD prisoner massacres Katyn massacre Nazioviet population transfers Soviet Census (1937) Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Operation North Mingrelian Affair Leningrad Affair Lysenkoism Censorship of images in the Soviet Union Operation Lentil (Caucasus) Operation Priboi Vinnytsia massacre Kurapaty Nazino affair Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union Purge of the Red Army in 1941
Works
Ten Blows speech Alleged August 19, 1939 speech Falsifiers of History Stalin Note
De-Stalinization
Pospelov Commission De-Stalinization Rehabilitation (Soviet) Khrushchev Thaw On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Gomulka thaw Soviet Nonconformist Art Shvernik Commission
Criticism
Stalin Epigram Lenin's Testament Leon Trotsky Ryutin Affair Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Vladimir Bukovsky Andrei Sakharov Anti-Stalinist left
Remembrances
Stalin Monument in Budapest Stalin's Monument (Prague) Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori List of places named after Joseph Stalin Yanks for Stalin Stalin Prize Stalin Peace Prize
Family
Besarion Jughashvili (father) Ketevan Geladze (mother) Ekaterina Svanidze (first wife) Yakov Dzhugashvili (son) Konstantin Kuzakov (son) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (second wife) Vasily Dzhugashvili (son) Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter)
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