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Memorial of the Siege of Eger, 1919

1959

A stone obelisk with a bronze relief in Eger, Hungary, honoring defenders of the city in 1919. It was made by the later Hungarian Soviet Republic commemorations, not by Kun himself.

A later memorial to 1919 defenders of Eger, linked to the regime Kun led but not to Kun personally.

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Photograph of a stone memorial with a bronze-colored relief panel showing three soldiers with a flag and a field gun with wheel, above an inscription plaque reading in Hungarian about the Egri uttörők (Eger defenders) of May 12, 1919, and the year 1959.
Memorial of the Siege of Eger in 1919, Ráckapu Square, Eger. Photograph by Globetrotter19, 2016.

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What it is

This is a photograph of a stone memorial in Ráckapu Square, Eger, Heves County, Hungary. It has a bronze-colored relief panel showing three soldiers with a flag and a field gun with a wheel. Below is a Hungarian inscription about the Eger defenders of 12 May 1919 and the year 1959. It is also called the red artillery memorial. The image is a photograph by Globetrotter19.

Why it matters

Béla Kun led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 as its de facto leader and served as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. This memorial was set up decades later to remember local defenders of the regime, which shows how the events were recalled in the 1950s. It is a secondary source about memory, not a record made in 1919.

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  • Which people and objects are shown in the relief, and what do they suggest about how the defenders are remembered?
  • Why might a memorial from 1959 be dedicated to events that happened in 1919?
  • What does the inscription name, and what does it leave out about the people who fought?

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