"putin(ov)shchina" exists.

[colkitto]

>>
>> Lenin and Stalin did change their names for "poetic" reasons, no doubt (
>> creating their own -ism's probably was not among their reasons), not
>> everyone is lucky to have a beautifully sounding name like Napoleon 
>> (three
>> sonorants out four consonants, for Russian, not for French) for
>> overthrowing the world.
>
> I can understand someone wanting to be associated with steel, but 
> laziness?? I'd've stuck with "Ulyanov," myself.


apparently Lenin took his name from the River Lena from his Siberian days

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