# Park with statues of America's most notorious historical characters. Marketable concept?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/park-with-statues-of-americas-most-notorious-historical-characters-marketable-concept/748133 "2016-03-06T19:10:05Z")\
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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> The Baltic states aren’t known for their love of communism, so [Stalin’s World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C5%ABtas_Park) was very controversial.

I don’t know about Stalin’s Park, but the Szoborpark in Budapest wasn’t anything like a celebratory place; it was more along the lines of a museum than anything else; they have all the old statues on one side, and on the other, they have a replica of Stalin’s boots, which were all that was left in 1956 after they toppled the statue of Stalin during the revolution. And there was a little building where they were showing some rather surreal Hungarian films from the Communist period where they encouraged people to rat their neighbors out, and other stuff like that.

I kind of imagine that if done right, a statue park of Confederates could be interesting for much the same reasons.

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