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
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