Lenin, Rákosi and Stalin portraits: Innovation and Invention Exhibition, Budapest
A curtained exhibition hall entrance. Above the door hang three side-by-side portraits: Lenin, Mátyás Rákosi and Stalin. A lettered frieze reads 'Following the example of the Soviet Union we build socialism.' Placing the Hungarian party leader between the two Soviet figures transfers their standing to him, and the frieze offers 'socialism' as a virtue word.
- Date
- 1949
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Organiser of the Újítási és találmányi kiállítás (Innovation and Invention Exhibition), Műcsarnok, Budapest, not named in the record; photo donor UVATERV (Fortepan)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Hungary
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Hungarian Peoples Republic
- Leader
- Matyas Rakosi
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: UVATERV), ID 9287, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan release; Commons file page states the licence)
FOTO:FORTEPAN / UVATERV, ID 9287 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
A SZOVJETÚNIÓ PÉLDÁJÁT KÖVETVE ÉPÍTJÜK A SZOCIALIZMUST [wall text visible through the doorway: illegible]
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION WE BUILD SOCIALISM [wall text visible through the doorway: illegible]
The portraits carry no captions on the object; the identification of the three men as Lenin, Rákosi and Stalin comes from the Commons/Fortepan file title.
