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
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