Miklós Steinmetz (1913 – December 1944) was a Hungarian-born Soviet Red Army captain. He fought on the Eastern Front of the Second World War and was killed by mortar fire. His name was used in Soviet propaganda and a story concocted that he and fellow officer, Captain Ostapenko, had been trying to save Budapest from a long siege by negotiating a German surrender. A Soviet statue of Steinmetz on the border of Budapest and Vecsés was taken down during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. A replacement was erected in 1958 and remains in Liberty Square, Pest. His parents were communists, and after th
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