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Mátyás Rákosi started to build the square for soviet style
parades in 1951 to honour Stalin’s birthday, thus doomed the
church. Maybe one reason to destroy the church was the fact
that it was built after the fall of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet
Republic, which was commemorated in the documents telling

about the foundation-stones of the church. The soviet republic
was a short-lived (133 days) communist terror state after WWI.
When the Hungarian Soviet Republic was established, it
controlled only approximately 23% of the territory of Hungary's
classic 1000 year-borders. During the 133 days thousands were
killed by the Lenin boys and the country could not take part in
diplomacy to close down the peace talks after the war. A whole
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line of people tried to interfere and defend Regnum Marianum ,
but members of the ÁVH dissipated the crowd and the church
was blown up. It took half a year to fully make the church one
with the ground, as it had been built upon moorland, founded
upon pile columns, with a framework made of reinforced
concrete, so they had to ask for military support to explode it.

8 Regnum Marianum church, Roman Catholic religious community in Hungary. Its name comes from the traditional
use in Hungarian of Regnum Marianum as a name for Hungary. Tradition honors the Blessed Virgin Mary as its
symbolic sovereign. The name derives from the tradition that the first Hungarian king, King Saint Stephen I offered
the Holy Crown of Hungary and the nation to her as he was dying, because he had no heirs to inherit it. Another
traditional legend may also explain the honorary title: St. King Stephen I raised up the Holy Crown during his
coronation in 1000/1 to offer it to the Nagyboldogasszony.

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