Earlier this week workers began to disassemble a memorial in Veszprém dedicated to the 1956 revolution after a court cleared the way for the monument to be moved to a less conspicuous place in the city, index.hu writes.
The move was initiated by the city assembly, which approved the monument’s design in 2006 when it was controlled by a Socialist-Liberal coalition. Following the 2006 local elections, Fidesz took control in the local government, and its new leaders were less enthusiastic about the memorial’s modernist design.
Citing changes to the originally accepted plans, the new mayor’s office stopped the completion of the memorial and decided to have it moved elsewhere.
The memorial will later be reassembled in city’s “Friendship Park.”
