STALINKA

[A.Smith]

Since the discussion moved to the question of origin of the name "Stalinka",
I just want to point everyone who might be interested in this issue to
Liudmila Petrushevskaya's story "Malen'kaia Groznaia": in the 1930s the
daughter of the protagonist was named Stalinka (Groznaia's flat  was given
to her by Stalin and she seemed to be grateful to him for this and other
"gifts'....). After Stalin's death Stalinka was renamed into Tat'ianka:
"Odnako vse okazalos' prekhodiashchim, I partiia, I ee dary, vse ono
rukhnulo kak-to razom posle smerti Stalina, Stalinku udachno pereimenovali v
Tat'ianku..." (Petrushevakaya 1999, Moscow, p.272).

Alexandra Smith
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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