Romney campaign warns of "Soviet" threat, talks about "Czechoslovakia"!

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Funny. In my part of the world, where people older than me actually remembers the communism, I haven't heard anyone calling Russia "the Soviets".

Because in your part of the world, they know Russia )

You know, my grandma lived a long life. So, by the end, she was, actually, calling Moscow streets by their current names - when everybody else had to re-learn them anew. She had never switched in the first place: Marx Prospect for her had always been Hunters' Row )

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These gaffes won't go over well in Leningrad. You don't hear them saying "Soviet" in Bombay or Peking.

In Leningrad province? Or at Leningrad station? Why? What's the problem?

And I will certainly insist on saying Bombay till I die )

BTW, in Russian it's Пекин. Beijing is just a way to transliterate - and you don't do this consistently. Or else, it would have been Taibei (same character is involved, means "North").

The problem w/ Czechoslovakia, though, isn't a name change: it's a different country.