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BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan 11, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A likeness of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan is among many new statues scheduled to be erected in the Hungarian capital of Budapest this year.
Reagan's bust will be erected in the City Park, next to those of Winston Churchill and George Washington, and was funded by Peter Zwack, a prominent Hungarian liqueur maker.
A memorial dedicated to the Hungarian gypsy Holocaust will also be set up along the Danube, while a monument marking the 50th anniversary of the 1956 revolution will be unveiled Oct. 23. It will stand on the same spot that was once a site of a statue of Stalin, a huge metal sculpture that was pulled down on the first day of the revolution, the daily Nepszabadsag newspaper said.
Another statue will be erected in the city in memory of firefighters who died while on duty.
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