Thread by @sumlenny

Russia is insane about renaming streets of the occupied territories. They always massively rename everything, including the cities and towns after occupation. Here is an interesting example of their logic: re-naming list for Ukrainian Melitopol, occupied by the Russians (THREAD)

Here is the list. I marked some of changes to present the Russians' logic. It is clear, why they have renamed Pylyp Orlyk street - the auther of the first Ukrainian Constitution in 16th century. Now it is Blucher street, after a Soviet warlord in 1920s. But what about others? 2/x

The Jewish street is now Dagin street, a Melitopol-born Stalinist high-ranked NKVD officer, a henchman and a murderer, organizer of GULag. The priorities are being set clear. 3/x

Out of Oleksandr Dovzhenko street and 2 Dovzhenko lanes, a Ukrainian genius of cinema, came Karl Liebknecht street and lanes. Out of Yaroslav the Wise founder of Kyivan Rus came Rosa Luxemburg street+lanes. Are the leftists in Germany happy with this erasing of local memory? 4/x

The Russians gladly erase everything Ukrainian, even if the names are Soviet-conform. So Korolev street (the father of the Soviet space program) is Kuybyshev now, the Professor Tanatar, a Melitopol-born ethnic Tatar, geologist and prospector of Donbas - MOSCOW street, and... 5/x

...Akhmet-Khan Sultan, a Soviet fighter pilot ace, a Hero of the Soviet Union, who fought against the Nazi Germany is now... OCTOBER street. I think because of the very simple reason: Akhmet-Khan Sultan was a Crimea Tatar. So much about the "Holy WW2 memory" for Russia. 6/x

Another Soviet decorated academic Paton, who developed the technology for tank steel welding, increasing the Soviet tank production, is also not good for the Russians, because he was a Ukrainian, so now it is Lazo street - after a Soviet warlord who fought in Siberia in 1920s 7/x

Another greeting to the German Left: Pavlo Syvytsky street, named after a forester who invested decades into preservation and development of the local ecology system around Melitopol, is now Thälmann street. I have no words left. /END