Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party
participated in the Returning of the Names action organised
by the Memorial human rights society. The action took place
on the threashold of the Memory Day of the Victims of Political
Reprisals.
Muscovites made a long queue to read out the names of the
victims of Stalin’s terror. Each of the participants obtained
a list with the list containing names of the victims of political
reprisals of 1937-1938, their age, post and the date of execution.
Ending the reading with the words “we shall never forget them”
the participants of the action put a candle by the Solovetsky
Stone.
Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO's Political Committee
Boris Misnik, Member of YABLOKO's Political Committee
Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the YABLOKO party
Yuri Shein, member of the Moscow YABLOKO Regional Committee
Valery Borschyov, member of YABLOKO's Bureau
Alexei Yablokov, head of YABLOKO's Green Russia faction
Sergei Ivanenko, member of YABLOKO's Political Committee
Alexander Gnezdilov, deputh head of the Moscow YABLOKO
See also:
Overcoming Stalin’s
Legacy
Human
Rights
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