Party of the Dead

So, in one of the interviews, the artist Maxim Evstropov noted that the idea of his “Party of the Dead” is partly “also a parody of the Nazbols”.

The party's announced candidates included Boris Savinkov, Roman Ungern, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vasily Chapaev, Sergei Eisenstein, Tommaso Marinetti, Ernesto Che Guevara, Andreas Baader, Yasser Arafat, Yuri Gagarin, Aleister Crowley, Benito Mussolini, Nestor Makhno, Yakov Blumkin and Lee Harvey Oswald.

According to the activists, each of the party members has already demonstrated "his competence in word and deed" and compares favorably with the current deputies, "that they fool naive townsfolk in order to get coveted mandates».

Political scientist and teacher at the Higher School of Economics Marina Sukhova believes that thanks to this, the participants “do not make sense to carry out political struggle in an institutional way, that is, to register a party and try to be elected to representative bodies.” In her opinion, the organization will most likely continue to exist as an art project, although in Western democracies such organizations sometimes enter into political activity, as happened, for example, with the German anarchist organization Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei", which moved from artistic actions to participation in elections.

[1] Actions carried out by the project, thematic, related to hanging leaflets or holding single pickets with posters.

For example, dedicated to violence against animals in the circus, raising the retirement age or changing the Constitution of the Russian Federation or the next elections.

[16] In the autumn of 2018, a representative of the project went out to protest against the pension reform in Russia with a poster “Life is difficult, but, fortunately, short” and was fined 17 thousand rubles for an action that was not approved by the authorities.

[1][17] In 2020, activists of the "Party of the Dead" held a "necropicket" at the cemetery in protest against amendments to the Russian Constitution, using the slogans "Yes, death!

[1] On March 7, 2022, the project participants held an action against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in one of the cemeteries of St. Petersburg, dedicated to the military losses of Russia, holding posters “We do not leave our own (only their corpses)”, “Mothers!

The activists called their action a reaction to the fact that the Russian authorities value little the lives of citizens of Russia and other countries.

[1] On May 9, 2022, the Party of the Dead held a large-scale international action dedicated to the traditional celebration of Victory Day.