Budapest (day 4)

An iron curtain.

It sits outside Andrássy út 60. That building was the headquarters of the Arrow Cross Party (the Hungarian version of the Nazi Party) until Germany invaded in 1944.

It then became the state's jail, torture chamber and execution chamber.

When the USSR "liberated" the country in 1945, the ÀVH carried on where the Nazis left off. The ÀVH was the local version of the KGB.

The building became a museum to "The Terror" in 2002.

I visited it this morning. It is excellent, but harrowing. Two things stood out - the videos of victims who survived to tell their stories, and the cells, torture chambers & gallows in the basement.

The extra shot is part of the line of photos of victims which runs along the outside of the building. Many just disappeared, of course. Relatives can light candles for them and leave them on the ledge underneath.