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Workers' Movement Memorial, Ludovika (Kun Béla) tér

Olcsai Kiss Zoltán, Farkas Aladár, Herczeg Klára · 1973

A 1973 photograph of a 1967 memorial sculpture in a square once named after Béla Kun, honoring workers' movement fighters.

Photograph of a memorial in a square once named after Kun, showing how the communist state commemorated him.

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Black and white photograph of a stone relief monument with three tall panels set on a plinth in a park. Three standing male figures in relief: left shirtless, center in a suit, right in a long coat and cap. Bare winter trees behind.
Olcsai Kiss Zoltán, Farkas Aladár, Herczeg Klára, Workers' Movement Memorial, 1967. Photographed 1973, Ludovika (Kun Béla) tér.

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What it is

This black-and-white photograph from 1973 shows a stone relief monument made in 1967 by sculptors Olcsai Kiss Zoltán, Farkas Aladár and Herczeg Klára. The memorial, located in Ludovika square (then named Kun Béla tér), has three tall panels showing standing male figures: one shirtless, one in a suit, and one in a long coat and cap, set in a park with bare winter trees.

Why it matters

This memorial honors fighters in the workers' movement and reflects how communist Hungary later commemorated its revolutionary history. The square's naming after Béla Kun shows how the state sought to connect the memory of the 1919 Soviet Republic's leader to later socialist ideals.

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  • Why do you think the three figures are dressed differently?
  • What message might this monument have been meant to send to people passing through the square?
  • How does naming a public square after a historical figure shape how people remember them?

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