Over the weekend, a new statue was added to Atlanta’s Peace Park, located next to one of the city’s most well-known and beautiful monuments, the Millennium Gate. This larger-than-life statue, erected by a grassroots effort of Americans who fled Communism and their descendants, will depict a defiant woman holding a gun and pays homage to the brave freedom fighters of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Although many young Americans remain unaware of the 1956 revolution, this statue aims not only to remind them of this important historical event that shaped global politics and a whole generation of Americans’ view of the
