the campaign to restore leningrad to the original st petersburg is gathering momentum.t citizens got to choose the name of the city ina got to choose the name of the city in a referendum. st petersburg was the cradle of the bolshevik revolution and in 192a it was renamed in honour of vladimir lenin, revolutionary leader and founder of soviet communist ideology. now his ideology has been rejected by the leadership it no longer want his name stamped on the city. rejecting lenin's name meant a complete turnaround. away from totalitarianism towards a new mentality and towards europe. totalitarianism towards a new mentality and towards europem totalitarianism towards a new mentality and towards europe. it is the most european of all russian cities. its founders peter the great said it was russia's window on europe. the hardline communist fighting to keep leningrad in on this issue there were undignified scuffles. the old guard are outraged at the challenge to the historic struggle. no one, not even ourselves, believe we would succeed in changing the city's name because the p

newsreel: the campaign to restore leningrad to the original st petersburg is gathering momentum.s got to choose the name of their city in a referendum. st petersburg was the cradle of the bolshevik revolution and in 1924, it was renamed in honour of vladimir lenin, revolutionary leader and founder of soviet communist ideology. now, his ideology has been rejected by the reformist leadership here, they no longer want his name stamped on their city. translation: rejecting lenin's name meant a complete turnaround away from totalitarianism, towards a new mentality and towards europe. it is the most european of all russian cities. its founder, peter the great, said it was russia's window on europe. the hardline communists are fighting to keep leningrad and on this issue, there were undignified scuffles. the old guard outraged at the challenge to their historic struggle. translation: no-one, not even ourselves, believed we would succeed in changing the city's name because the opposition was very strong. this was the last stronghold of communists, lenin and his legacy. i remember 24—hour

kind of people now it's no accident that young ambitious intelligent men like putin growing up in leningrad in fairly tough circumstances looking at its career opportunities as well join the k.g.b. there's nothing sinister about this it was the most cagey business there's a people see if that's what. it was where ambitious people would would gravitate and so it's a mark of it's an ability that he was promoted quickly in the k.g.b. and finished up in east germany at the time of it which i just left it off for a friend of mine was a fellow diplomat of lover of the united nations. thirty five forty years ago they worked together in a committee he said was super bright and you know super organized just the professional diplomat you can see that no leverage gives a media conference without notes and he just talks about every issue out of this and gets it right gets the language exactly right we have running out of time here and i want to ask why isn't one more question there is a presumption in the west that if putin of we're not in the kremlin that russian policy somehow would have been differe

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