The Axe mini statue by Kolodko
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Eszter Horvath Somogyi
"ℹ️ INSIDER INFO: The story might be a bit bizarre, but here you go: Not so long ago almost at the exact spot, there was another Kolodko mini here: the Ushanka (Russian fur cap) close the the Soviet statue. A politician expressed his displeasure by ruining the Ushanka with an axe and threw it into the Danube. (As I said earlier, probably it's not a coincidence the other frog emerging from the river wears an Ushanka). 🙂 But back to the axe, now we have this mini at Liberty Square, honoring the culprit weapon."
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"Liberty Square has long been an ideological battleground, with controversial monuments from every political era of Hungary’s history and Kolodko included his of an Ushanka (Russian Hat) mini-statue, criticising a perceived continuing Russian influence in Hungarian politics.
One far-right politician didn’t take too kindly to it, destroying the statue with an axe and throwing it into the Danube. The sculptor responded with this sardonic comeback, both mocking and memorialising the violence of his aggressor."
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