The monument „Banner of the Revolution“ was dedicated at Lajos Kossuth Square before the Parliament Building, during the official ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Revolution. Thus, the monument already created by Imre Makovecz in 1991 to commemorate the Revolution in the form of a symbolic grave had been augmented by one of the most meaningful symbols of the Revolution: the Hungarian National Flag with the Socialist state emblem torn out of it. The banner has been mounted in a stone plinth embellished with a bronze relief. It depicts a female and male figure waving the Hungarian National Flag with a hole in its centre. Both are standing on a hammer, sickle and five-pointed star, symbolic for the Soviet regime conquered by the Revolution. The stone and banner are attributable to the artist László Gömbös. In front of it, one can find a gravestone with an inscription underscoring the significance of the monument on its upper side. Later, a further plaque was added, which explains the meaning of the banner in both Hungarian and English. During the renovation of Kossuth Square, the memorial stone, which had been erected in 1991 without a building permit, was removed in 2013 and is now located in the underground memorial area and publicly accessible exhibition hall on the south side of the Parliament Building. The Square located in front of the Parliament Building in Budapest was named after the Hungarian freedom fighter from 1848, Lajos Kossuth, and it was also one of the central scenes of the 1956 Revolution. Here, during the evening of October 23, 1956, several hundred-thousand people had assembled, after large-scale demonstrations had already been taking place throughout the city since the afternoon of the same day. The assembled masses awaited a speech from, above all, Imre Nagy. However, Nagy was at first hesitant to address the crowd. Instead, a speech from the Interior Minister, Ernő Gerő, was presented, who condemned the rallies of the day. As Nagy finally appeared in a window near the main entrance of the Parliament Building at around 9 p.m., he generally spoke out for a continuation of the reforms he had begun in 1953, without directly addressing the demands raised by the demonstrators during the course of the day. In spite of this fact, his speech possessed great symbolic power. On the morning of October 24, 1956, Soviet troops advanced into Budapest and also occupied Lajos Kossuth Square. In order to protect the surrounding governmental and party buildings, units from the Red Army and the Hungarian Secret Service were brought into position. The presence of these forces caused a fateful occurrence the morning of the following day, which would go down in the history of the Revolution as „Bloody Thursday“. After hundreds of thousands of demonstrators had gathered before the Parliament Building once again, and for reasons still not entirely clarified to the present day, indiscriminate shooting ensued between insurgents, Hungarian and Soviet security forces, during which hundreds of people were killed.