[P.O.E.]

Thanks. I had forgotten about that one. Goes in the category of Burma-to-Myanmar. My bad.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And let’s not forget that one night in 1961, Stalingrad became Volgograd, with little if any explanation from Soviet leadership at the time. It was as if Uncle Joe Stain was erased from history.

And in recent times, since communism fell, Leningrad reverted to the historic name of St. Petersburg.