Stalin Monument (Budapest)

Stalin Monument
Native name
Hungarian: Sztálin szobor
The Stalin Monument in 1953
TypeSocialist realism
LocationDózsa György út, Budapest, Hungary
Height
  • Height of bronze statue: 8 meters (26 feet)
  • Height of statue and plinth: 18 meters (59 feet)
  • Total height of monument: 25 meters (82 feet)
UnveiledDecember 18, 1951
DemolishedOctober 23, 1956
SculptorSándor Mikus
Stalin Monument (Budapest) is located in Budapest
Stalin Monument (Budapest)
Location within Budapest
Stalin Monument (Budapest) is located in Hungary
Stalin Monument (Budapest)
Location within Hungary

The Stalin Monument (Hungarian: Sztálin szobor, pronounced [ˈstaːlin ˈsobor]) was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956, by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution.