Statue of Imre Nagy

Imre Nagy was a Hungarian Prime Minister just before the uprising in 1956. He tried to introduce a less strict form of communism in Hungary (pulling away from Soviet domination). After the crush of the uprising he was a refuge in the Yugoslavian Embassy, but later he was told to be given free passage, but on his way out he was arrested and executed 2 years later in 1958 by the communist regime. His body was exhumed and given a full state burial in 1989. His bronze statue on Vertanúk (Martyrs) square shows him standing on a bridge, watching towards the Parliament. Vertanuk tere is on the corner of Kossuth Lajos ter (M2 underground station), near the Parliament – corner of Nádor, Vécsey and Báthory streets.