Iron Curtain Monument
Iron Curtain Monument
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Neighborhood: Terézváros
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- Vörösmarty utca • 2 min walk
- Oktogon • 4 min walk
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CorpusAstra
Budapest, Hungary45 contributions
Feb 2023 • Friends
Anyone who says it's just a couple of chains - you didn't get the point... Maybe you figured it out that it's a symbol, but you don't know why and clearly don't understand/care about the Hungarian history. In this case, you can call it a chain monument and nothing interesting about it, but at least you could respect the history just a tiny bit and the people who died.
Anyway, I think it's a great representation and a great symbol of what the Hungarian people (not just the Hungarians though) had to go through. If you're there just stop for a moment and let the silence lead the way.
Anyway, I think it's a great representation and a great symbol of what the Hungarian people (not just the Hungarians though) had to go through. If you're there just stop for a moment and let the silence lead the way.
Written August 30, 2023
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elindoo
Stuart, FL2,178 contributions
Jul 2018 • Couples
Growing up as a kid I remember always hearing a lot about the iron curtain (which of course is just imaginary), but this really depicts it. Heavy chains so close together you can't see through it. Sits right out in front of the house of terror........how fitting!
Written July 7, 2018
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eventsbythirteen
New York City, NY361 contributions
Jun 2018 • Friends
Upon seeing this monument, I was immediately moved! Maybe, now more than ever it is important to remember where we have been as a society, in order to prevent anything like this from happening, again!?! The entire complex is stunningly dramatic! A MUST SEE!!!!!
Written June 9, 2018
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Roberts69
Northampton, UK18,895 contributions
Apr 2022
The 'Iron Curtain' is a term describing the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989-91. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union, (Hungary used to be one such country), while on the west side were the countries that were NATO members or nominally neutral... But much has changed since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain.
This memorial, a symbolic 'Curtain' of Iron constructed using heavy iron chains, stands directly outside the 'House of Terror' museum in Budapest's Varosliget district.
This memorial, a symbolic 'Curtain' of Iron constructed using heavy iron chains, stands directly outside the 'House of Terror' museum in Budapest's Varosliget district.
Written May 13, 2022
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Boho1979
Deal, UK688 contributions
Feb 2018 • Couples
Sat outside the Museum next to a piece of the Berlin Wall, this is something you must take a moment to view and think about its significance and the statement being made.
We looked at both when we came out of the museum and I found it very moving and thought provoking.
We looked at both when we came out of the museum and I found it very moving and thought provoking.
Written February 20, 2018
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Donna G
Manchester, UK183 contributions
Nov 2017 • Couples
Actually came across this by accident but glad we did, not the most attractive thing to see, but unusual.
Written January 29, 2018
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stinkwink
Sydney, Australia7,223 contributions
Jan 2018 • Solo
Usually, when talking about a curtain, it is made of a variety of woven fabric, thinner or thicker, we can think of something in front of the window. We may use it for decoration or provide privacy or to filter the light, till the full exclusion of it. The iron curtain served the latter, both figuratively and physically. The name comes from Churchhill, who in his Fulton 's speech for the first time called on that name the wire fence that separated the communist countries from the West. The idea of the „curtain” was to block the communist states that crumbled under the rule of the Soviets to see any lights coming from the West and stop them, to accidentally experience that there is a different kind of life, not just as it has come to them. Of course, even an iron curtain does not close completely and whispered rumors slip across it, and some lucky ones manage to escape from the dark to the desired light. Then once it is so rusty that it is wiser to lift it than to wait for the people behind it to burst with violence. In 1989, along with the Berlin Wall, the curved iron curtain collapsed, and at the Hungarian-Austrian border, the physical barrier was cut. Here in front of the House of Terror Museum stand a monument symbolizing the Iron Curtain, made by its creator very expressively of rusty chains. Countless corroded irons are hanging so closely together that it is impossible to see through them. Those behind them even if chains do not curl to their wrists, but they are held in captivity.
Written January 26, 2018
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George
Athens, Greece7 contributions
Oct 2017 • Solo
This monument is outside the Terror Museum.. Also next to it lies a part of the famous Berlin Wall.. Vörösmarty utca metro station is nearby (Metro line 1).It worths to visit all 3 of them....
Written October 10, 2017
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Jeff N
Temecula, CA50 contributions
Apr 2017
The Iron Curtain Monument was amazing. It made me think about how things were then and how they are now. With the multiple photos and descriptions, I was able to get a good understanding of the times.
Written October 3, 2017
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TravellingDora
161 contributions
May 2017 • Friends
We paused to look at the Iron Curtain Monument before entering the Museum (House of Terror) It does make you think about the suffering that people endured. It is a great monument to look at and if you are visiting the museum as well you wouldn't want to miss out on a photo
Written June 1, 2017
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