"We don't have enough time to hear their names."
The "Eternal Return of Names" campaign was held by Russian activists of the "Party of the Dead" in KutaisiIn the video, they vied with each other to read the names of political prisoners from Stalin's lists. Georgia.
"We use the 'return of names' campaign—reading lists of the repressed—but here, several voices read these lists simultaneously, so the names become indistinguishable in the general din, and the pronunciation of a name simultaneously serves as its annihilation. There are so many names on these lists—it's impossible to remember them all, impossible to recall them all by name—but it's also impossible to forget them all; they remain eternally returning ghosts." — the party founder explained the essence of the action Maxim Evstropov.
"Our voices are no longer enough to voice all the names, and our time is no longer enough to listen to them. And time only makes the lists longer." — the party’s Telegram channel says.
The "Party of the Dead" emerged as a response to the "Immortal Regiment" march, which began as a grassroots initiative but was co-opted by the state. Party of the Dead activists believe this was done to justify "militaristic policies, an aggressive policy of death."