European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Soviets new look getting new names the soviet government is trying to bring about some changes in the soviet Union. But they re finding out there arc some things that arc easier to change than others. Changing what people do and How they think is difficult in the extreme. Old ways and habits die hard. It is much easier to say a free Market Economy a for example than it is to bring a free Market society about. In fact its always easier to change what you re calling something than to change the thing itself. One of the first things the communists did when they came to Power was to change names. Cities that had been known for centuries As St. Petersburg and Volgograd became Leningrad and Stalingrad. Now the soviet authorities have decided to rename the most famous Street in Moscow. Gorky Street is to be known from now on As Tverskaya Street according to the newspaper Moskovsky Kosovo lots. Tverskaya Street is what Gorky used to be called before the Kremlin decided to name it in Honor of Maxim Gorky. What i suspect is that a lot of old time muscovites probably kept calling it Tverskaya Street anyway just As new yorkers have kept calling sixth Avenue sixth Avenue All these years instead of Avenue of the americas. Changing a name is not without precedent. New York was once new Amsterdam. Why they changed it i can say despite the old song Lyric. The dutch named it the City of new Amsterdam because Amsterdam is dutch. When the British took Over they named it the City of new York because York is British. Its the same reason the argentines called the Falkland islands Malvinas when they invaded and the British changed the name right Back As soon As they kicked the argentines out. In such cases the name is a Way of saying a this is mine not when governments Start renaming streets and cities or even a whole country there is almost always some political reason. Cambodia became Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and Burma is now Myanmar and its capital Rangoon has been renamed Yangon although nobody Ever seems to Call it that. Its the least of their w orries in that troubled country. But everybody Calls Cey Lon. Sri Lanka now and every body Calls Siam Thailand. While the russians Are in a renaming mood they have now also decided to rename one of the most modern vessels in the soviet Navy. The aircraft Carrier Riga is now going to be called the Varyat. According to the newspaper Krasnaya Zveda. The russians might think about renaming their newspapers with catchier names if you ask me Varyat was the name of a ship in the pre revolutionary russian Navy. Somebody seems to be telling somebody sume him feedback population ratios in 6 Moat populous nations China a 1 out of every 5 people in world India 1 of every 6 people . A 1 of every 18 people United states a a 1 of every 21 people Indonesia a 1 of every 28 people Brazil a 1 of every 35 people source population reference Burea stars with unusual insurance policies Jimmy Durante a nose insured for $100,000 Cyd Charisse a legs for $5 million Rudolph Valentino a face for $1 million Mary Pickford a face for to million Betty Grable a legs for $1.25 million Charlie Chaplin a feet for $150,000 Fred Astaire a legs for $1 million source world features Syndicate workers killed while building great Structure Empire state building a 14 Golden Gate Bridge a 13 verrazano Narrows Bridge a 3 3 saved by net Brooklyn Bridge a approximately 14 Holland Tunnel a 13 Hoover dam a More than 90 source world features Syndicate
