Dnipro

From UNIAN:
"Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro"

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has decided that the city of Dnipropetrovsk should be renamed Dnipro as part of the decommunization drive, according to an UNIAN correspondent.   Resolution No. 3864 to rename the city was supported by 247 out of the 344 MPs registered in the session hall. The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption. An explanatory note to the resolution says that the city was named Dnipropetrovsk in 1926 as a compound word after the Dnipro River and after Bolshevik and Soviet Communist Party leader, head of the 1917 revolutionary movement and Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Hryhoriy Petrovskiy (1978-1958). Petrovskiy later became one of the masterminds of the Holodomor artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. "The name carries symbols of the communist regime and, by law, it must be changed," the note says.

^ De-Communization (or lustration) is needed throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - and not just for names, but symbols, organizations, politics, etc. Most countries support de-Natzification and so de-Communization is the next most logical step. More crimes and more people were affected by the Communists (mostly because they were power for 40-70 years while the Nazis were in power for 12.) Communism has only ever been good on paper and never in practice. Any country that has become Communist has also become a dictatorship that used/uses fear and murder to stay in power. It is a recipe that will never last since eventually people will become fed-up with the abuses and hypocrisy (ie. Communism - the so-called "class-less" society has more classes than a democracy) and demand change. Communist genocide and murder should not be praised or honored. Only it's victims should be. ^

http://www.unian.info/politics/1349664-dnipropetrovsk-renamed-dnipro.html