TIL: There's a square in Bucharest (Romania) that was renamed after Adolf Hitler during World War II, then renamed after Joseph Stalin during the Cold War, and is now currently named after Charles de Gaulle. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Fifth_Down t3_10erify on January 17, 2023 at 11:41 PM in todayilearned 40 comments 497
eatfrog t1_j4v7iq1 wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:22 PM there's one in budapest too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kod%C3%A1ly_k%C3%B6r%C3%B6nd it was called Hitler Adolf tér (Adolf Hitler square) from 1938 to 1945. There used to be a Lenin boulevard too, between 1950 and 1990. Permalink 2
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