Russia's Putin says reverting to Stalingrad name up to city residents

Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 4/30/2025 | Reuters

[marcusmaximus]

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was up to residents of Volgograd to decide whether the city should revert to the name of Stalingrad, as it was called when Soviet forces defeated Nazi invaders in World War Two's bloodiest battle.

Ahead of next week's commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazi Germany, the issue has been raised of restoring the wartime name of the southern Russian city.

Putin, quoted by state news agency RIA, was asked at a forum about restoring the city's former name - a sensitive issue in view of the association with the horrors of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's nearly three-decade rule.

[Kazan]

And, Ukraine has 150 monuments or streets named after Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

It's just another example that Zeeper hypocrisy is just as great as Democrat or leftist hypocrisy.

[marcusmaximus]

Are you going to vote to rename your beloved city Kazan to Mongolgrad?

[dragnet2]

He’s following Trump’s lead....doing a Gulf of America thing with Stalingrad...☺

[Petrosius]

You mean that Bandera who spent most of the war under Nazi arrest because he would not cooperate with them? Remember, too, that Stalin himself was a Nazi collaborator in 1939.

[JewishRighter]

Bad move. Honoring one of history’s greatest mass murders?

[rrrod]

Stalin is Putin’s hero.

[dfwgator]

Better notify the French, then....



Apparently it's in the "African" part of the city.

[Navy Patriot]

Putin says ... up to city residents

Rooters Sewer Service and Yahoo Noose breathlessly "report" that Putin is going to do nothing.

[dfwgator]

Like how he left Crimea up to the residents. Of course staying with Ukraine was not one of the options on the ballot. It was independence or part of Russia.

[JewishRighter]

Great catch! Yeah, but its the French, so what can you expect?

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

[And, Ukraine has 150 monuments or streets named after Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

It’s just another example that Zeeper hypocrisy is just as great as Democrat or leftist hypocrisy.]

---

Japanese collaborators became the national leaders of multiple countries despite the atrocities visited upon the citizens of the countries they eventually led. As a member of a group (Slavs) Hitler aimed to exterminate, Ukrainian nationalist partisans opposed to Russian rule made a temporary alliance with Hitler, much as Vladimir Jabotinsky pushed for an alliance with Mussolini over British resistance to a Jewish state. In Asia, multiple future national leaders made common cause with Hirohito to throw off European rule.

This kind of accommodation wasn’t some exception. The American Revolution was essentially an English civil war, Americas edition. It was sponsored by France with huge sums, with 3% of GDP, the US defense budget today, the low estimate.

Now, given that England had fought France for centuries, i.e. France was the ancient enemy, Patriot collaboration with France seemed extraordinarily treasonous to the English Crown. But the Brits got over it. As a traitor to the Crown, Washington will never be celebrated in the UK except in his hometown. But they are resigned to his rightful prominence in the country he carved out of Crown lands.

The French did not finance the Revolution out of the goodness of their hearts or any affinity for republican causes. Their goal was to set one English faction against another, much as they had financed both sides of multiple English civil wars for centuries, typically backing challengers against incumbents.

[Navy Patriot]

Ukraine has 150 monuments or streets named after Nazi ... Stepan Bandera.

Yep, those Ukes were worse than the German Nazis, and they earned their Borderland status as the Most Corrupt band of Criminals on Earth.

[Robert357]

It is not going to happen.

I have visited Russia. In particular when I went to St. Petersburg (aka Leningrad), I spent time talking to older people. What I learned was that up until the fall of the Soviet Union Stalin was viewed as a hero and savior of the Russian people (not so much in Ukraine, where he was responsible for the Hunger Death). After the fall of the Soviet Union, information started to come out about how he had written off so many Russian lives during the war. The older generation who lived through WW2 began to understand how evil he was, especially after the war ended. The shared their sense of betrayal with their children who are now the Baby Boomer generation of Russia.

There is a reason that Stalin statues have been torn down all over the former Soviet Union. The people are not going to return to honoring Stalin.

[larrytown]

So disappointed - came here for the comments, and NO ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTIONS!

How ‘bout something that everyone can remember - BATTLEGRAD!

[T.B. Yoits]

Stalvolgingrad?

They should name it GeorgeFloydville and be done with it.

[Navy Patriot]

You're right, it seems all it takes to defeat Zelensky, Ukraine, and Zeepers, is to do nothing.

They defeat themselves.

[Kazan]

Japanese collaborators became the national leaders of multiple countries despite the atrocities visited upon the citizens of the countries they eventually led.

You realize that we joined with the Soviets against the Nazis because Nazis were THE GREATER EVIL.

You're disgrace for justifying neo-Nazism and embracing evil that we fought to destroy.

But, your logic, you hypocrite, can also be used to explain why some Russian hold Stalin in high regard -- because he saved them from the Nazis, an enemy that killed 27 million Russians.

It's just another example of the lengths that Zeepers will go to justify our association with the tyrannical, neo-Nazi government in Kiev.

[Who is John Galt?]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ZF!