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Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
The change was made by popular demand despite the plea of older residents that it not be made till they, who had heroically withstood the German siege of Leningrad, were dead and gone.
Nothing laid bare the latent loathing of Communism, even at its best, in Russia so strikingly as the change by referendum from Leningrad to Sankt-Peterburg .
This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.
But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/ Sankt-Peterburg will ever be called Peterston .