A black and white photograph depicting the tearing down of a huge statue of Joseph Stalin, weighing 6.5 tons, in the heart of Budapest on the night of October 23, 1956, dominates the photo exhibition prepared at the Goethe Institute by the Hungarian embassy in Athens to honour the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, the first great uprising in the Soviet block that was quelled by the invasion of Russian tanks.

The quelling of the uprising resulted in 2,800 Hungarians being killed in battles and 225 being executed, while over 200,000 Hungarians left the country and two years later the country's prime minister, Imre Nagy, was executed.