Putin is Planning to Change Volgograd’s Name Back to Stalingrad, According to Kremlin Insiders
According to Kremlin insiders, Russian authorities loyal to Vladimir Putin are putting forth legislation to rename the city of Volgograd back to Stalingrad, as it was known until 1961. On February 2nd, Vladimir Putin visited the city to mark the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory against The Third Reich. Putin has used the memory of Stalingrad and World War Two as a whole to justify the war in Ukraine.
All these ideas…are chained to the existence of men, to who[m]…they owe their existence. Precisely in this case the preservation of these definite races and men is the precondition for the existence of these ideas. --