“We are not Americans who give numbers to their streets instead of names, They simply don’t have any prominent people to name their streets after, and we have enough to keep renaming streets for three-four years,” one of the commission members said as quoted by local media.
The Streets of Dnepropetrovsk however already have perfectly good names, which it seems the officials are no longer satisfied with.
The streets named after the Ukrainian writer and anti-fascist Yaroslav Galan will also lose its name, along with October street, as it is the month of the Socialist Revolution of 1917.
Some neutral new names are also on the list: one street is set to be renamed 'Mercy', while another one will be changed to 'Solidarity'
Only the name 'Tolerance' has sparked a heated debate.
“We are living in a time when the word tolerance is a pain in the neck. What tolerance are you talking about during the war?” objected another member of the commission.
Susanin was declared a Russian hero, who has nothing to do with Ukraine.
