The names of Communist-era leaders should be erased from city streets, Evelyn Zupke said
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner has called for renaming streets bearing the names of Vladimir Lenin and Cold War–era socialist leaders.
Streets in multiple cities still carry the names of politicians from Soviet-aligned East Germany, which reunified with pro-US West Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Evelyn Zupke, the Bundestag’s commissioner representing former East German political prisoners, told the newspaper Bild that names associated with the socialist past should be removed from public spaces.
“Thirty-five years after reunification…
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