In Buda, there are three different pieces of art on a small square wedged in between the two buildings of the Mammoth shopping mall. All three commemorate the 56th Freedom Fight. First, the seven headboards (the Transylvanian wooden headboard) appeared in 1989. It is said that a member of the MDF (Hungarian Democratic Forum) carved them. That was followed in 1991 by a trained half-rustic stone with the inscription 1956. When this memorial was completed, only the Mammoth I was built, and the idols of the remembrance were standing on the empty plot next to it. In the meantime, however, Mammoth wanted to expand and develop the Mammoth II for the otherwise unoccupied land. There was a compromising solution. Mammoth II gave away a piece of its corner, and so the memorial remained intact. However, the changing public taste required a different, more monumental and modern monument, so in 2001 Ferenc Árva's work, the statue of polished chrome steel was donated. A men's figure, which is just about to collapse, holds the big glossy flag in which the 1956 year is the place for the cut-off sickle and hammer. There is also a more modest commemorative remark today, which the Australian Independent Hungarian Freedom Fighter Alliance has placed on one of the pillars of the mall in 2006 on the fiftieth anniversary of the War of Independence. In general, few people stop by the memorial to at least put their grace in front of the heroes who have sacrificed their lives to free Hungary from Soviet repression. Perhaps those who were personally involved are better off remembering, but 56 are far away in time already, and we will soon celebrate its 63rd anniversary. It is a good Hungarian custom that this mourning is just an occasion for the different parties to accuse each other of making false history since both parties demanding the glory for themselves alone. When I walk there, I stop for a moment and look at the headboards. Who carved them did not make them for money, but tried to cut his feelings, the nation's mourning into them, and this is more valuable in my eyes than the sparkling chrome steel creation, that otherwise, I have no objection against at all.

We almost walked right past this amazing memorial. Upon seeing the bullets on the wall, we walked downstairs. The memorial is full of videos of survivors telling their stories. The stories are horrifying and true. It's a shame that more people have not heard about the atrocities that occurred here. I highly recommend visiting this memorial.