The 41 statues in Memento Park are intended to provoke a re-evaluation of Hungary's dictatorial past. Holp demonstrated this when she brought our group to a halt by the Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial, which was cast in 1956, just before the Hungarian Revolution. The memorial depicts a Hungarian worker shaking hands with a Soviet soldier, seemingly in a gesture of friendship. But not all is as it seems. The Hungarian worker holds out two hands in friendship while the Soviet soldier extends only one hand, leaving the other hand clenched in a fist by their side.
