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.
Sándor Kopácsi's report states that the protesters surrounded ... a prominent statue of Stalin, and other individuals arrived with specialized tools to dismantle specific parts of the statue, such as its bronze boots.