Goodbye, Lenin: How a small town in Russia triggered outrage by ditching a few of its Soviet street names
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Goodbye, Lenin: How a small town in Russia triggered outrage by ditching a few of its Soviet street names
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Protests recently erupted in Tarusa after the city's council changed the names of streets named after leaders in the Soviet Union back to their pre-revolutionary forms. While some tend to agree that the Soviet revolutionaries should no longer be glorified, those protesting feel that the re-naming of streets is a sign of fascism and an unwarranted rejection of the town's history
