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They will simply be renamed back to whomever they were named after once this wave of madness has past. Leningrad is Saint Petersburg again, Danzig is called Gda
by the_third_wave 3y ago
They will simply be renamed back to whomever they were named after once this wave of madness has past. Leningrad is Saint Petersburg again, Danzig is called Gdańsk, etc. One of the ways of making sure this happens is to simply keep on using the real names and consider the new names aberrations.
- criddell 3y agoThink Saint Petersburg will ever go back to Nyen? Berlin, Ontario renamed itself to Kitchener in WWI. Now there's a (not very strong) movement to rename the city again because the British General the city was named after (Horatio Herbert Kitchener) was responsible for the creation of concentration camps in the Boer War. Of course, like Saint Petersburg, Berlin wasn't the first name for settlements in that area. People rename things and I personally am okay with that. Like Shakespeare said, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- janeerie 3y agoAs a side note, there is also a push to change the name of an important knitting technique, Kitchener stitch, which was named in honor of the General.