Budapest: Freedom Monument

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Budapest’s Freedom Monument and a wall of the adjacent citadel on Gellert Hill. The statue, 14 meters high, depicts a woman holding a palm leaf of victory above her head as a symbol of “liberation” from the Germans by Soviet troops in 1945. The statue by Zsigmond Kisfaludy-Strobl (1884-1975) was commissioned by the Soviets and erected in 1947. It is one of the few statues dating to the Soviet occupation that has not been removed.

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Size: 5115px × 3420px
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Photo credit: © E & S Ginsberg / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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