Berkeley, Ca. would probably accept this change.
Obamagrad ?
My first thought was that Pelosi or Feinstein wanted to change the names of San Francisco and Los Angeles...
I don’t see St. Petersburg ever changing. The Imperial Russian History thing is too big of a tourist draw.
I could see Volgograd, however, voting to change to Stalingrad for the very same reason.
The Orthodox Church supports the name change back to Stalingrad. Interesting that the Church would want to bring back the name celebrating the man who would rule over an atheist state. That would keep the Church from fulfilling its holy mission.
And by interesting, I mean I’m surprised the church hierarchy is happy to announce just whose pocket said hierarchy is in.
Not the church members, necessarily, but the hierarchy.
Satire?
People have remarkably short memories.
They’re more likely to be renamed Putingrad.
The Russian’s can rename them mud as far as I care.
I thought me meant Seattle and Oakland. Or better yet, Detroit, where a name change to Leningrad would highlight the remarkable successes of socialism.
Perhaps a city name issue, although with different ideologies and cults, between Dearbornistan and Dearborn.
Part of me is thinking, at least they are still acknowledging their history, while in this country, we’re running away for ours as fast as we can. They barely even talk about WWII anymore in our schools.
How about renaming Kaliningrad Koenigsberg? It’s original name honored a medieval Slavic king, Ottakar II of Bohemia. The current name honors one of Stalin’s flunkies.