Most important corpse in Europe

First, this image is from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which in short order was brutally reversed by the Soviet Army. This image of Stalin as an enormous corpse is simply fascinating, and I think it gets at both the sense of rot afflicting Communism and the impossibility of ignoring it. The giant stone corpse in the room, as it were.

I'd like to call attention to some name-references I've found in the book; I'm sure there are more. The first one that stood out to me was Paul Blackenhurst. We can divide his last name into "blacken + hurst", where hurst is a Middle English word for a grove or a wood. This sense of blackening something connects Paul to the Black Notebook, a sense of power and mystery, but also to death and decay (a "black" wood) which eliminates renewal. 

Next I picked up on a suggestion in the name Willi Rodde, where Willi is most likely short for Wilhelm. Wilhelm is also the name of a rather famous European leader who lead Germany on an African imperialist project, while Rodde suggests Rhodes, as in Cecil Rhodes, a businessman who was a driving force in the British colonization of Rhodesia (named after him, just where the events of the Black Notebook happen to occur) and white supremacy there. 

Finally, it is mentioned on p. 447 that Anna's maiden name is Freeman, which is something like the structuring absence in the title "Free Women." As usual, this is ironic, but also in some ways universalizing, as women are "men" too in some (but not other) meanings of that word.