Word: stalingrad
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...Radio Warsaw disk jockey obviously did not know the score. Thoughtlessly he played a cantata by Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian written in praise of Joseph Stalin. Last week the square deejay lost his job. > In Russia, a soccer match between Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and Tiflis, capital of Stalin's native Georgia, was called off by officials who feared that pro-Stalin Tiflis fans would riot at the sight of Volgograd jerseys...
...Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that the city revert...
...against such a change, for it is deplorably wasteful. Think of all the maps, almanacs, signs, dictionaries, histories, and treatises that will have to be altered. Think of the schizoid effects on those who hold local roots dear, and of the effort of those who fought the Battle of Stalingrad and celebrated it in song and prose. Time and money all wasted...
...more deserving than the man who, even before Khrushchev, alerted the Soviet people to the darker side of Stalin's personality--Lev Davidovich Bronstein? If Stalingrad must be renamed, let it hence-forth be known as Trotskygrad...
...shelter signs on buildings. "Because they believe they will have more time before attack than we," he says, "they have planned for putting up such signs during a long-range alert. The shelters are there, but they aren't posted. During my trip, I asked a man in Stalingrad about a vented block of unmarked concrete sticking out of the sidewalk. 'Ah,' he said with a shrug, 'it's a shelter exit,' as if to say-so what's unusual about that...