There is no Russian city called Leningrad anymore, but apparently no one bothered to tell Donald Trump.
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There is no Russian city called Leningrad anymore, but apparently no one bothered to tell Donald Trump.
Archive article:https://archive.is/BNBGH
Im all for calling out Trump for his senility as much as the next guy, but this is kind of reaching to call a dementia moment…even I didnt know Leningrad wasn’t a city anymore. And im in my 30s, far from senile…Hell, I didnt know it was called Saint Petersburg before. And it was only renamed St. Petersburg in the 90s sometime. Probably something you’d only know if you are actually a Russian citizen, or live there.
Or you know… googled it just now and read the Wikipedia article on it.
Edit: Wow, didnt realize calling out an article for its bullshit would be a controversial opinion. I’d ask my mom if she knows where St. Petersburg and Leninburg are at, but I already know she wouldn’t know they were the same city…ya’ll can stop telling me how common knowledge this is now. I dont care.
Edit 2: just for funsies, I asked my mom (in her 60s btw) if she knew where Leningrad was…she had no idea.
Most Americans, if you ask about “St. Petersburg” are going to go “Florida?”
I’m starting to think it was a regional thing. I went to school when it was still Leningrad, and we learned about Hegel, Marx, Lenin, the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution, and the renaming of St. Petersburg. Maybe that’s why it stuck more when it was changed back.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam!
Why’d they change it?
I can’t say.
Maybe they liked it better that way. shrug