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Matt Black Busts of Lenin and Stalin. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Series from the Monument to the Heroes of the Workers' Movement. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Soviet Heroes' Memorial. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black The remains of a monument to Stalin (boots), on a pedestal at Memento Park. The statue was torn down on October 23, 1956 by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during the Hungarian Uprising. Budapest, Hung (...)
Matt Black Young Lenin memorial. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Memorial bust to Tibor Szamuelzy, an official of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Memorials to Steinmetz and Ostapenko, emissaries sent to negotiate German surrender during the siege of Budapest in 1944. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Series from a relief decorating the base of statue to Stalin, torn down on October 23, 1956 by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during the Hungarian Uprising. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Bela Kun Memorial. Be´la Kun was a Hungarian Communist and the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Monument to the Martyrs of the Counter-Revolution. Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos
Matt Black Entrance to Memento Park, an open air museum preserving statues and monuments from Hungary's Communist period, 1949-1989. Budapest, Hungary. 2017. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos