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Captain Steinmetz
In December 1944, the Hungarian-born VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Soviet Red Army Captain Miklós Steinmetz Practical Information
delivered the Ultimátum with the proposed Balatoni út & Szabadkai utca,
terms for surrender from the Soviet troops District 22, Budapest. Road
to the Germans occupying Map D3. Tel (1) 424 75 00.
Budapest. He was shot while Open Apr–Oct: 10am–dusk
returning to Soviet lines. daily; Nov–Mar: 10am–4pm daily.
& = ∑ mementopark.hu
Transport
@ 101B, 101E, 150 from Kelenföld
Metro station (M4).
. Hungarian Fighters in the
Spanish International
Brigades Memorial
This monument honours the
Hungarian contingent of
the many European revolution-
aries who flocked to Spain
to fight there in the
1936–9 Civil War.

. Workers’ Movement
Memorial
Two monstrously large
hands are about to clasp
a globe, and with it the
working class of the world.

The Trabant 601
Few objects symbolise life in socialist Central-Eastern
Europe better than the plastic-bodied Trabant. This
little car, produced in East Germany between 1957–
1990 with almost no change in shape or specifications,
was once a continual presence on the roads of the
socialist block. Although the Trabant was a small,
uncomfortable, slow and fragile car, it was much
loved by those who were finally able to buy one
after spending decades on the waiting lists.

Lenin
Vladimir Lenin (1870–
1924), leader of the 1917
Revolution and first head
of the Soviet state, points
the way to a bright The iconic Trabant car at Memento Park
Socialist future.

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