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# Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/sokrushennaia-figura-stalina-vo-vremia-vengerskogo-vosstaniia-23-oktiabria-10-noiabria-1956-goda/
- Published: 2025-07-28T11:15:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:44:28.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Heritage, Society

The shattered figure of Stalin during the Hungarian Uprising, 23 October - 10 November 1956\. The insurgent crowd brought down the eight-metre statue of Stalin erected for his seventieth birthday, leaving only the boots, into which a Hungarian flag was planted. The disfigured head lay for a long time in Lenin Boulevard with a road sign stuck into it. One of the inscriptions on the sculpture read: murderer of 25 million

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