| Sandy, Personally I think it only helps to correct or update the placenames when the original is so far in the past that it cannot be found. Some names will never change except in the minds of the PC few. Case in point: Saigon, which was Saigon for hundreds of years until PAVN took it in 1975. The SRV can call it "Ho Chi Minh City" all they want, to the three million US military that served in South East Asia it was and is going to remain Saigon. Russians came to their senses on that one as well. Nearly all Leninist/Stalinist name changes have been reversed -- Leningrad is St. Petersburg, Stalingrad is Volgograd, Gor'kiy is Yekaterinburg, etc. Some things are kept -- memory of Battle of Stalingrad will never change due to the cost of that battle (sound familiar?) and due to the 900 Days, the military district around St. Petersburg is is still Leningrad Military District, not Northern as was planned. A bigger problem comes in when going from language to language to language. I still have a deuce of a time getting to figure out where the Soviet air battles took place, as they converted them from Korean/Japanese to Russian and I have to try and convert them from Russian to English and then locate them on a map. Not an easy task, no matter WHOSE map you use! Cookie Sewell AMPS |