Recsk National Memorial Park
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For decades, Hungary's Communist Party insisted this gulag had never existed.

📜 Former forced labor camp in Hungary (1950-1953), operated by the State Protection Authority (ÁVH), now a memorial park in Recsk.
🔍 Recreated as a memorial in the 1990s to commemorate victims of communist terror and explore the dictatorial regime.

Why Go

🏛️ Learn about the true nature and horrors of communist terror and dictatorship
💔 Sobering representation of gulag's brutality
🚶 Recreated camp buildings based on former prisoners' reports
📖 Site of historical significance, once denied by the Communist Party
🧡 Commemorate political prisoners

Why Avoid

🚗 Likely requires a car for access

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