Memento Park, Budapest

After the fall of communism in 1989 all the soviet statues from around Hungary were taken down and moved to an area outside Budapest.

The area has since become an attraction in it's own right. Although some parts of the park such as the snappily named 'Unending Promenade of Workers Movement Concepts' still evoke the Communist era (or a track off an old Genesis album).

The largest statue in Budapest was a huge bronze of Stalin which the locals took great delight in pulling down. Only the twelve foot high boots remained.

Uncle Joe's boots (Photoshop montage)

The remainder of the statues are of all the good and great of the Communist era plus a smattering of heroic peasants and common soldiers.