The church, located in the hills on the edge of the city, was earlier part of a Carmelite convent. But it was shut down in 1950, as Stalin's campaign against the church reached the Soviet satellite of Hungary. In the same year, the painter Zoltán Básti created a fresco of the Archangel Gabriel conquering Satan on the wall of the church. Whether or not the painter intended to show the power of the divine over the Soviet dictatorship, the likeness of Stalin in the face of Satan in the fresco is undeniable.
"One thing is for certain, he was a very brave person," says the church's parson Attila Németh of Básti, whose name was revealed only after the fall of communism. "During that period, he probably would have been hanged for such an act."
Little more is known about the fresco, and the last Carmelite nun purged from the convent died two years ago in Austria.
Source: Múlt-kor
