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Stalin Monument is unveiled

1951 CE · Hungary, Europe · Culture

Stalin Monument is unveiled
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The Stalin Monument was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956, by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution.

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