Post-Soviet Linguistic landscape of Russia

[John Dunn]

If I may be allowed to make a correction, the town in question is, as the link indicates, not Cheltenham, but Colchester, and hence not Middle England, but deepest Essex.  Colchester is the home of the University of Essex, which at one time had the reputation of being Britain's 'reddest' university, albeit that the prevailing tendency was probably more Trotskyist than Stalinist.  Perhaps the townsfolk are sending some sort of message.

John Dunn.
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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

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