Statue of Imre Nagy

Imre Nagy Statue, Budapest, 1998

Of all the monuments I've seen in Europe, my favorite, across the street from the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, is anything but monumental. I saw it on a family trip in 1998, but only now have figured out a way to convert the VHS-C tape, first to a DVD and then to a file I can upload.

The monument is a statue of a pensive-looking man, life size, no larger, standing half way across a bridge. His head is turned toward the Parliament (and away from a monument to Soviet troops who freed Hungary from Nazi occupation in World War II. That can be seen in the second shot).

Had I not happened to join the wrong tour group for a tour of the Parliament, I never would have known that the statue had any significance. In fact, it has a great deal.

The man is Imre Nagy, the reformist prime minister who led Hungary during the failed uprising against the Soviets in 1956. The statue, the tour guide said, symbolizes Nagy taking the nation half-way to freedom.

The uprising and the events surrounding it are, in some ways, a little more complicated than popular western history sometimes makes it out to be. But to me, that does nothing to diminish a monument whose power is much greater than its size.

UPDATE: A commenter alerted me to the fact that the statue is no longer on this site. That led me to this article which explains why - it's another example of Hungary's descent toward right-wing extremism:

Imre Nagy Statue in Budapest - TopBudapest.org

Imre Nagy Statue in Budapest by the Hungarian Parliament building:
Imre Nagy is looking at the Parliament (Orszaghaz) on Kossuth Square, while symbolically turning his back to the Soviet 'Liberation' Monument on the nearby Szabadsag Square (the Soviet Monument was not moved from its place after 1989 when Hungary became a democratic country). The statue is a life size figure of Imre Nagy as a thinker, a politician and an everyday citizen. Imre Nagy was the Hungarian Prime Minister in 1956, when the - failed - revolution took place to bring down the Soviet backed puppet government of Hungary, a dependent colony of the totalitarian Communist Soviet Union. After 1956 he was kept in prison for 2 years, when he was finally executed in 1958. Then he was placed in an unmarked grave, later marked under a female pseudonym, then re-buried in 1989 with thousands of Hungarians attending the funeral.

Imre Nagy Statue, Budapest (updated)

Of all the monuments I've seen in Europe, my favorite, across the street from the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, is anything but monumental. I saw it on a family trip in 1999, but only in 2011 did I figure out a way to convert the VHS-C tape, first to a DVD and then to a file I can upload.

Now I've uploaded again, the quality is slightly higher and the date is corrected.

The monument is a statue of a pensive-looking man, life size, no larger, standing halfway across a bridge. His head is turned toward the Parliament (and away from a monument to Soviet troops who freed Hungary from Nazi occupation in World War II. That can be seen in the second shot).

Had I not happened to join the wrong tour group for a tour of the Parliament, I never would have known that the statue had any significance. In fact, it has a great deal.

The man is Imre Nagy, the reformist prime minister who led Hungary during the failed uprising against the Soviets in 1956. The statue, the tour guide said, symbolizes Nagy taking the nation half-way to freedom.

The uprising and the events surrounding it are, in some ways, a little more complicated than popular Western history sometimes makes it out to be. And, just in the years since I first uploaded this video, the Hungarian government has taken a sad turn to the extreme right and away from democracy. But to me, none of this diminishes a monument whose power is much greater than its size.

Hungary remembers late Prime Minister Imre Nagy

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán together with his wife, lay down white roses on the tomb. The Late Prime Minister Imre Nagy was a communist reformer but he was arrested and hanged on the 16 June in 1958 for his involvement during the revoultion in 1956.…
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FREE WORLD OUTRAGED BY MURDER OF NAGY In West Germany and in New York City, scenes of angry clashes between police and demonstrators protesting the executions of Imre Nagy and other leaders of Hungary's Freedom Fighters. The blanket denunciation of the Red executions by the non-Communist world are summed up by the U.N.'s Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary.

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12292018 Hungary removes statue of anti-Soviet hero Imre Nagy

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1958 - Nagy Imre az utolsó szó jogán - Last Words of Imre Nagy

A miniszterelnököt és társainak egy részét két évi fogva tartás után tartott perében a Vida Ferenc vezette népbírósági tanács ítélte halálra. Az utolsó szó jogán elmondott beszéd 1958. június 15-én hangzott el. A per képanyagának jelentős része ma sem elérhető, ugyanakkor a hanganyag és Nagy Imre üzenete eljutott az utókorhoz.

After two years of captivity, Imre Nagy and some of his fellow-prisoners were sentenced to death by the people's tribunal led by Ferenc Vida. Nagy delivered his speech on the 15th of June, 1958. Most of the imagery of the case is not available for research, but the audio and Imre Nagy's message are.


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Hanganyag: A Nagy Imre-per, 1958 - Egy propagandafilm titkos története c. dokumentumfilmből
Kép: (kivágott kép a fentebb említett propagandafilmből)

16th June 1958: Execution of Hungarian Communist leader Imre Nagy

Arrested after Soviet forces brought the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to an end, Nagy was found guilty of treason in a secret trial and executed by hanging.

Nagy had been sacked from his position as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in April 1955 due to his independent attitude that favoured a “New Course” in Socialism. Although his moderate reforms were met with hostility from the USSR, they garnered significant support within Hungary where opposition to the hard-line government of Mátyás Rákosi had grown since the death of Stalin in 1953. Nagy’s popular support led to him being appointed Prime Minister on October 24th 1956, the day after the Revolution began.

After a week of violence, Nagy recognised the crowd’s desire for political change. Despite being an ardent Marxist he began moves towards introducing a multiparty political system and, on November 1st, announced Hungary’s withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and its status as a neutral country. This proved too much for Khrushchev in the USSR, who moved his troops into Budapest and seized control of most of the city by the 8th November. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslavian embassy, but was arrested when he was given false promises of safe passage to leave Hungary on the 22nd November. He, and other leading members of the deposed government, were imprisoned in Romania until 1958 when they were returned to Hungary for trial.

News of Nagy’s trial and execution were only made public after the sentence had been carried out.

Mort d'Imre Nagy

Description : Critique du régime soviétique à travers le portrait d'Imre Nagy.

Date : 1958-00-00

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Hungarian Revolution

National Archives - Hungarian Revolution - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This newsreel film was shot during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet communists. Footage shows scenes of Budapest, Soviet tanks as they moved in, relief supplies, and refugees as they fled Hungary. Also included are scenes of pro-Hungarian demonstrations in Poland, West Berlin, Italy, and Paris. The soundtrack is in German. - DVD Copied by IASL Scanner Justin Grimes. - 1956 - ARC 2049945 / LI 263.1717

Imre Nagy And Fellow Martyrs Remembered On 56' Memorial Day

Imre Nagy and fellow martyrs were remembered countrywide on 56' Memorial Day.

Communism Tour in Budapest, Hungary

The Budapest of today is very different from the Budapest of 50 years ago, mainly because back then the Communist Party reigned supreme and Hungary was in the grip of the Soviet Union. Although not a member, the country found itself inside the Eastern Bloc and most definitely inside the Soviet sphere of influence at the end of the second world war. Whilst in the city I took a walking tour to learn about how communism affected the city and its people, we visited some nuclear bunkers, the Imre Nagy Statue (since removed), the 1956 Hungarian Uprising Memorial and former headquarters of the Secret Police. A fascinating journey into Hungary's past.

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Imre Nagy (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈnɒɟ]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.

PRL 1989 Imre Nagy Tragiczny los węgierskiego bohatera 1956 roku

Fragment Dziennika TV z dnia 16.06.1989 roku. Historia węgierskiego powstania w październiku 1956 roku i tragiczny los jego przywódcy Imre Nagyiego.

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Imre Nagy Life

Imre Nagy (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈnɒɟ]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.

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HungaryTopic 4. Famous people related to OWTF ( Imre Nagy)

4th video by the Hungarian team for the Our Way to Freedom Comenius partnership about Famous people for this project. This video was shown in Poland on September 2013.

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Nagy Imre Per / The Secret Trial of Imre Nagy (Hungarian / Magyar Televizió)

1958. február 5-én vette kezdetét a titkos per, melyet a katonai bíróság Fő utcai tárgyalótermében tartottak. Négy hónappal később fejezték csak be, ekkor már egy másik tanácselnök, Vida Ferenc, a Vérbíró, vezette azt. 1958. június 16-án hajnalban a Gyűjtőfogház udvarán végezték ki Nagy Imrét, a forradalom miniszterelnökét, Maléter Pál honvédelmi minisztert és Gimes Miklós újságírót. Vida Ferenc, a rendszerváltás után, halála előtt, közvetlenül sem bánta meg döntését.

BBC News Imre Nagy

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