My dad had his dad’s name as a middle name, I have my dad’s as my middle, and my son has mine - but we ain’t commies! It is pretty odd (to me anyway) how they keep track of things what with changing last names and all. Although I guess back in the days of the Soviet Union that may have been a good thing!
Dang, where I come from, Iceland is a codeword for “Alabama”.
White crackers of the frozen north UNITE!!!!!
Actually, the patronymic (using an ancestor's first name as part of your name) predates the Soviet era in Russia. Read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or even Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" - all of the major characters were born and named in the pre-Revolutionary era.
My middle name is the same as my father's first name also. One more thing - it makes documentation easier for genealogists.
Bank when I was doing a lot of genealogy, I read that the Irish used to name their children in a certain way with I think the oldest son named after the father’s father, the second son named after the mother’s father etc. My brother is named after my father’s maternal grandfather and I’m named after my father’s maternal grandmother.