Post-Soviet Linguistic landscape of Russia

[Giuliano Vivaldi]

There is (or was until very recently) a Stalin Road and a Stalin Avenue in the UK. In 2009 there was some suggestion of changing the name of Stalin Road in Cheltenham, England (a rather conservative, 'middle-England' town) but residents were against the plan:http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/search/4216206.Colchester__Stalin_should_stay_/Wikipedia has a larger list of place names after Stalin globally:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Joseph_Stalin
Giuliano Vivaldi,Independent Film Scholar


        
        

      
    
    Aleksander Wat comments in his unpublished notebooks on the case of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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