Cobretti2 said:
Been a while see there has been Russian news in Australia lol
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/madness-russia-furious-over-kaliningrad-name-change/news-story/489faf6673cb2131dfd30053e913b6ad
Citing a recommendation by a state commission tasked with standardising foreign names in the Polish language, Poland’s development minister Waldemar Buda said Kaliningrad would now officially be called Königsberg — Królewiec in Polish.
Moscow reacted furiously.
“It’s not even Russophobia anymore, these are processes close to madness that are going on in Poland,†Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“It brings no good to Poland. These are not just unfriendly actions: these are hostile actions,†he added.
Poland shot back, saying that Kalinin was to blame for the notorious Katyn massacre, during which 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union’s political police in a forest near Smolensk in 1940.
“The fact of naming a large city close to our border after Kalinin, a criminal co-responsible for, among others, issuing the decision on the mass murder of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940, evokes negative emotions in Poles,†Mr Buda said.
The Soviet Union had long denied responsibility for the killings, accusing the Nazis of the crime, before admitting the truth in 1990.
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Its also a storm in a teacup - lots of countries typical list place names in their own language. For instance, England isn't called England in other European countries (ie Angleterre in French, Inglaterra in Spanish). 'Germany' is the English name for Deutschland.
Recently Wales renamed a national park to Bannau Brycheiniog - its historical Welsh name. Some English people got angry calling it 'anti-English' and they'd keep calling it Brecon Beacons. Well, of course they would - English speakers typically will struggle to say the Welsh name so will go with what they know as its easier. Russia just seem to lose all perspective here.
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