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February 25· Anniversary
Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism
A memorial day established by the Hungarian Parliament in 2000 to remember those persecuted under the communist regime.
By a resolution of the Hungarian Parliament, 25 February has been the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism since 2000. The date recalls the arrest on 25 February 1947 of Béla Kovács, general secretary of the Smallholders' Party, by Soviet military authorities and his deportation to Siberia.
Under the communist regime hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were imprisoned, deported or sent to forced-labour camps. The House of Terror museum on Budapest's Andrássy Avenue is dedicated to the victims of that era.
Remembrance
Commemorations are held in Parliament and in schools, and flowers and candles are laid at memorials.
Video
Photos
The House of Terror museum in Budapest · Slyronit / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Portraits of victims on the wall of the House of Terror · Slyronit / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Memorial to the victims of communism in Budapest · Globetrotter19 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Relief of the memorial · Globetrotter19 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
House of Terror, Andrássy Avenue · Ank Kumar / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
The 1956 memorial in City Park · Wizzard / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Hungary: other days
- January 1New Year's Day
- January 22Day of Hungarian Culture
- March 15Day of the 1848 Revolution
- April 16Holocaust Memorial Day
- May 1Labour Day
- June 4Day of National Unity
- August 20State Foundation Day (St Stephen's Day)
- October 3Founding of the Organization of Turkic States
- October 6Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad
- October 231956 Revolution and Republic Day
- November 1All Saints' Day
- December 25Christmas
- 50 days after Easter, Sunday and Monday; May – JunePentecost (Pünkösd)
- Sunday and Monday after the first spring full moon; late March – AprilEaster
- The Friday before Easter; late March – AprilGood Friday