(The New Yorker) An officer in the Red Army. A journalist. The director of Moscow Café Number Three.
On Wednesday, a soft litany sounded from a little green median at the foot of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison. There, for twelve hours straight, more than two thousand men, women, and children took turns reading aloud the names, ages, occupations, and dates of execution of victims of Stalin’s Great Terror.
Before quitting the microphone, each reader could also share the name of a relative who was killed under the Soviet regime.
The Return of the Names event is organized by the International Memorial Society, which advocates for human rights and the preservation of historical memory. The event was first held eight years ago, as part of an effort to remember the more than thirty thousand people killed in Moscow during the bloody years of 1937 and 1938. […]
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