The consultant of SED sufferers, Evelin Zupke, spoke in want of renaming a number of streets after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and previous SED officers. “35 years after reunification, no street should be named after Lenin, Otto Grotewohl or Wilhelm Pick,” the federal commissioner instructed the Bild newspaper.
The identify of the road is an expression of gratitude for lately’s democratic society. Against this, other folks like Lenin or representatives of the SED “stand for the suffering of thousands of victims”.
To distance themselves from the historical past of the SED, after the top of the GDR, many streets in East German towns have been renamed in honor of well-known figures of the Soviet Union and communism equivalent to Joseph Stalin. On the other hand, to this present day there are streets named after the Russian progressive Lenin or former SED leaders Pieck and Grotevohl. The consultant of SED sufferers now desires a a lot more crucial option to those boulevard names.
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