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But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/ Sankt-Peterburg will ever be called Peterston .
It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.
Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
The renaming of both Leningrad and Stalingrad was historically and psychologically costly because nothing that has happened in either city amounts to nearly so much as their roles in World War II.
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 .