I thought all of my ML peeps would enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVblPI8xQ1s
I have never needed a translator more in my entire life.
Stalin is a popular name in India. On a related note, in Albania during the socialist period there was a unisex name called Marenglen (Marx-Engels-Lenin) which a number of Albanians have.
Same with variations of Vladimir Illich Lenin in South America, a good example of that is Carlos Illich the Jackal. This also leaded to embarassing names for example Vladimiro Illich Montesinos chief of the Security Apparatus of the neo-liberal Fujimori regime that lead the repression of the Tupac Amaru Movement and the Shinning Path.
...or Carlos (Karl) Frederico (Friederich) Lacerda, a Brazilian anti-communist leader.
A schoolmate of mine was named Johann Iljitsch and we called him Johil.
Carlos the jackal's father had three sons name Vladimir, illich and Lenin. Carlos was the middle child. If my dad would have only called me Lenin...
Naming kids after Lenin happened a lot in the USSR. Of course there is a movie where some bloke is called Mels and the Komsomol leader gets mad because he calls himself Mel thus disregarding Stalin. Forgot what it was called though.
Stilyagi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilyagi_(film)
I think that's the one.
looks awfull
It's like someone jumped into a paint warehouse wearing strange clothes
Why is Stalin a popular name in India??
Pretty cool song btw.
Its common to communist parents to have their children named after things related to communism, for example the names that have been cited here, and since as user ind-com said recently, almost all communists in India follow the line of Stalin, denouncing him being political suicide.
But is it a common name in general or only amongst communists?
