046 homage at burial places
"A visit to a person’s burial place by a large number of people together or by a series of individuals and small groups may express political protest and moral condemnation when the dead has been in some way associated with the cause of the current struggle or when the dead has been killed by the opponent. For example, in St. Petersburg on October 4, 1861, a procession of students opposed to the tsarist regime carried a wreath to the tomb of Granovsky, the historian and friend of Alexander Herzen, the founder of Russian Populism.216 On November 17, 1866, student revolutionaries from the University of Petersburg called “the Terrorist Section of the People’s Will” sought to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Dobrolubov, the comrade of Chernyshevsky (the great Russian Populist leader) by placing a wreath on his grave, but were prevented by the police and Cossacks.217 During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia on the “anniversaries of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk’s birth and death, people used to go... in thousands to his grave at Lany near Prague to put flowers on his grave,” writes Josef Korbel. “They also would go to the monument of Jan Hus in the center of the old city of Prague and do the same.” 218 In France the bodies of hostages executed by the Nazis were dispersed among inaccessible cemeteries, apparently to avoid large-scale visiting of their graves.219"...
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