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Monument, plaque · Szczecin, Poland

The Statue of the Lad of Pest

It is located in Kasprowicz Park, near the Monument to Polish Heroes and the statue of Pope John Paul II: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gpafFDdsGoV8WXR69

Text on the plaque next to the monument: This monument commemorates the events of October and November during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, when the Hungarian people took up arms, demanding the democratization of political life, as well as the country’s sovereignty and independence. Soviet troops brutally crushed the national uprising. Approximately 2,700 Hungarians lost their lives in the fighting, 19,000 were wounded, and nearly 200,000 people were forced to flee the country. More than 22,000 revolutionaries were imprisoned, and 225 people were executed.

In the fall of 1956, as a sign of solidarity, the Polish people sent blood, medicine, food, and basic necessities to the Hungarian people. Donations from the city of Szczecin were delivered to the working-class district of Csepel—Budapest’s 21st district. To commemorate this, the Polish and Hungarian local governments erected twin memorials in Szczecin and Csepel in 2016.

Inscription
Translation:

Budapest 1956
Erected by the local government of Csepel, District XXI of Budapest, at the initiative of Szilárd Németh, a member of the National Assembly.
2016

Stories about this memorial

In 1968, the four of us—my best friends (classmates from technical school)—traveled to Poland for the first time, including a visit to Szczecin, and 50 years later, we revisited the city, including the '56 memorial.

Vámos-Hegyi Attila · October 2026

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Statue of the Lad of Pest