The account of the incident by Sándor Kopácsi, head of Budapest's police: "[The demonstrators] placed ... a thick steel rope around the neck of the 25-metre tall Stalin's statue while other people, arriving in trucks with oxygen cylinders and metal cutting blowpipes, were setting to work on the statue's bronze shoes.
The account by Sándor Kopácsi, head of Budapest's police, describes how the protesters encircled ... a large statue of Stalin, while others brought equipment to remove the statue's metal components, including its bronze footwear.