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De-Stalinization in Romania
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<h2 id="changes-in-placenames">Changes in placenames</h2> <p>Many placenames, companies and institutions had been named after Stalin and the "classics of Marxism", as well as Romanian Communist heroes. Most of these were reverted in the 1960s. This began in 1962, with the reverting everything that was named after Stalin: <a href="/facts/Bra%C8%99ov/U0I6JfxX">Brașov</a> (which had been named <i>Orașul Stalin</i>), two raions in Bucharest, 23 national companies, 28 local companies, 26 agricultural cooperatives, 5 schools, 285 socio-cultural institutions (hospitals, clubs, stadiums, etc.) and 541 avenues, streets and parks.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>Some placenames named after Lenin were also changed, but many were also kept. The reason for the change was to have a better proportion between international and local names, part of the advancement of <a href="/facts/National_Communism_in_Romania/tFfncWC4">National Communism in Romania</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Marcela Salagean, "The Period of De-Stalinization in Romanian Culture, 1959-1965", in <i>East European Quarterly</i>, Vol. 42, No. 3, Fall 2008</li> <li>Dennis Deletant, Ceaușescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989, M.E. Sharpe, London, 1995, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-56324-633-3.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Deletant, p. 172 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Mariana Bechir, „Tătucul“ Stalin, şters de pe harta României[permanent dead link], Adevărul, July 22, 2009 <a href="http://www.adevarul.ro/life/dupa_20_de_ani/Romaniei-Tatucul-Stalin-harta-sters_0_83991653.html" target="_blank">http://www.adevarul.ro/life/dupa_20_de_ani/Romaniei-Tatucul-Stalin-harta-sters_0_83991653.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mariana Bechir, „Tătucul“ Stalin, şters de pe harta României[permanent dead link], Adevărul, July 22, 2009 <a href="http://www.adevarul.ro/life/dupa_20_de_ani/Romaniei-Tatucul-Stalin-harta-sters_0_83991653.html" target="_blank">http://www.adevarul.ro/life/dupa_20_de_ani/Romaniei-Tatucul-Stalin-harta-sters_0_83991653.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>