ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a discussion of the key features of public recall in Soviet Lithuania using a broader temporal perspective. It examines one form of memory in Lithuania – reminiscences of socialism. The chapter attempts a "sensomemography" of Grutas, one that insists on investigating sensuous recollections as "embodied within persons" who are "always part of dynamic living processes". It suggests that memory as a practice and a generator of social knowledge affords a productive site in which to investigate and to better apprehend the ongoing postsocialist transformation with its many unintended and bewildering consequences. The train of deportees and the statues of communist ideologues on the other side of the park's fence are allegoric representations of contrasting yet complementing memories: one recalling the victim and the oppressed, the other – the victimizer and the oppressor. While both sight and taste are mobilized for "remembrance work" at Grutas, the senses serve to evoke two distinct kinds of socialist memory.
