Kropotkin - the town, the mountain and the street

[ed miliband]

After Kropotkin's death he had a mountain (or small mountain range), a town and a street named after him - who was behind this?

It's a small question, but one that has intrigued me for a while.

[ContrarianLemming]

shhh!
We bother the Leninists for having a cult of personality about Lenin and naming cities after him! now we're gonna look stupid!

[Raúl Duke]

lol

[ed miliband]

Quite a big town, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kropotkin,_Krasnodar_Krai

[Raúl Duke]

The town was named after him since he died in 1921 and it was ultimately a decision by the bolsheviks. It's unknown in anarchists were petitioning for these names changes or not.

[Steve_j]

Its a false flag operation, the bolsheviks named it after him and make it look like the anarchists did so they could better fight anarcho allegations of personality cult :thumbup1:

[Nolan]

The bolsheviks were sorry for being sectarian with guns so they decided to make it up to the anarchists. I've always wanted to name a city "Durruti" after our glorious Marxist-Leninist revolution.

[ed miliband]

If you look at certain French cities/towns on Google Maps it's can work as an awesome who's who of the revolutionary left. Plus some places have streets named after Nietzsche, or Hegel, or literary figures. I don't think it suggests a cult of personality, and I'd quite like to live on one such street.

[BeerShaman]

I'd love to live in Kropotkin! There should not be capitalism in there:blink::laugh:! Blasphemers!

[Raúl Duke]

A town called Durruit will be cool.