The demonstrators, who organised the event through a Facebook group, aimed to prevent the establishment of “a political symbol which advertises historical lies,” one of the organisers, Péter Béndek, said.

He added that the government’s goal was to relieve the nation of the responsibilities of its past and present, for which it has no authority, knowledge or a moral basis.

The 300 people held the demonstration in the form of a flashmob on Szabadság Square, the planned site of the statue.

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