The Kádár cube: a place in the country, communist style
The mass construction of prefabricated tower blocks in Hungary’s cities had its rough counterpart in…
The communist past of today’s Budapest hotels
It’s possible to stay in a variety of Budapest hotels with links to the communist…
The rise and fall of Budapest’s giant Stalin statue
The most spontaneous example of destalinization in the communist bloc came in Budapest on 23…
Soviet war memorials in Budapest
The Red Army invaded Hungary in late 1944 and early 1945, expelling the last of…
The destruction of the Regnum Marianum church in Budapest
The Communist regime demolished the Regnum Marianum church on the edge of Budapest’s City Park…
The grisly murder-suicide of Dr Sándor Zöld
One of communist Hungary’s grimmest events – and there’s plenty of competition for this title…
A top 10 of Communist Budapest’s remains
An outline of the top 10 remaining communist sights in Budapest