Post-Soviet Linguistic landscape of Russia

[Jan Zielinski]

On 2014-08-07 12:14, John Dunn wrote:
> Perhaps I could add a belated postscript by pointing out that Bologna 
> was effectively run by the Communist Party from 1946 until the time 
> when communists stopped being communists.  This has resulted in the 
> city having to this day a Via Carlo Marx, a Viale Lenin, a Via Gorki 
> and a Via Stalingrado, as well as a technical college named after Rosa 
> Luxemburg; there is also a Via Del Lavoro and a Via Dell'Industria. 
>  Subsequent political changes in Europe, Italy and Bologna itself seem 
> not to have had any effect on urban nomenclature.  It is perhaps not 
> always remembered that there were long-running communist 
> administrations in various towns and cities in Italy and France (not 
> to mention the Republic of San Marino), and it would be interesting at 
> some point to compare the naming policies of these administrations and 
> their successors with those of the countries of Central and Eastern 
> Europe.
>
>
Aleksander Wat comments in his unpublished notebooks on the case of 
renaming (into rue Lenine!) of one "rue Staline" in Ivry-sur-Seine near 
Paris.

According to this Internet source there are still two "rue Staline" 
left, one in France, one in Belgium:

http://www.echolalie.org/wiki/index.php?ListeDeruesquinexistentpas

  * Rue Staline (En France, il n'en reste plus qu'une aujourd'hui, à
    Essômes-sur-Marne (2400), dans l'Aisne. En Belgique, il reste une
    rue Staline à Eugies (province du Hainault)



Jan Zielinski
Berne

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