Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late on Tuesday renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad, as the city was known when the Soviet army defeated the Nazi German forces in the biggest battle of World War Two, APA reports citing Reuters.
“In order to perpetuate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, I hereby decree … to assign the historical name ‘Stalingrad’ to Volgograd International Airport,” the decree published on the Kremlin’s website said.
Is this permanent or temporary? Because afaik it was already a tradition to do this every year temporarily for Victory Day, but then they would go back again to Volgograd after. Anyway, renaming the airport is weaksauce. They need to give the city of Stalingrad back its name. Enough of this de-communization bullshit.
After reading the oficial announcement through the Telegram chat of TASS, looks like it is a permanent change.
About the city being renamed back to Stalingrad permanently, two thirds of Volgograd residents oppose this according to a 2023 poll by the state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Centre . Hope this could change soon enough when more people warm up to socialism again.
I trust that our Russian communist comrades are working hard to bring back socialism.