Post-Soviet Linguistic landscape of Russia

[Giuliano Vivaldi]

You are of course correct and it was a rather silly and inadvertent oversight of mind. However, Colchester as a city has mainly been a Tory stronghold. The other city in the UK having a Stalin place name is Chatham in Kent. The connecting point between the two towns is their military connection. 
It would be more appropriate to look for political connections for name locations to the Soviet Union in Scotland. There may be a few to research there. One to comes to my mind is Gagarin Way which gave the title to a play written not too long along:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin_Way
I seem to recall another place in Scotland being nicknamed 'Little Moscow' for the militancy of its population. Moreover, I recall hearing about a UK cabinet discussion of whether to aerially bomb its own city of Glasgow in the mid 1920s due to the militancy of its population (as this was aired on a TV programme conducted by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, one can be fairly certain that this is not part of a conspiracy theory).
Giuliano Vivaldi
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:47:29 +0000
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Post-Soviet Linguistic landscape of Russia
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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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