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Originally Posted by Velvet
Places are renamed all the time. Depends on who is in power, eg Stalingrad became Volgograd after “our father, Stalin” in Russia became “that genocide monster, Stalin” since he killed 20 million of his own countrymen to implement his communist woke ideology. Etc. reinterpreting history is on-going, everywhere.
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I'm pretty sure the renaming of neither the city nor the reputation had nothing to do with the communist ideology or being woke (which Stalin wasn't). The renaming had everything to do with the rejection of who the man actually was and what he actually did/ordered, ///
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
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