Budapest Bullet Holes

These Budapest Bullet Holes are how I called them before I realised what do they mean. I first saw them when I was walking around the Parliament Building, and I thought it was a little bit weird to have small iron balls over a wall. For a moment I thought it was some kind of abstract art and then I remembered the scars of the Second World War in Berlin and everything connected.

Budapest Bullet Holes: A Memorial to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Budapest
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Close to one of the most touristic areas of Budapest, there is a memorial that most people overlook and ignore. I feel like that happens since there is no English plaque around, but the bullet holes on the Ministry of Agriculture building are challenging to let go of.