Did Amsterdam once have a 'Stalin Street'?

mushu-scooby

These are the stalin streets. # Stalinova ulice (Stalin Street) – now Starochodovská ul., Prague, Czech Republic # Stalinova třída (Stalin Street) – now Revoluční ul., Krnov, Czech Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Stalin Feb 16 07, 9:08 PM

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There must have been thousands of "Stalin Streets" in Russia/Eastern Europe, the interesting thing is: Why was a street in Amsterdam called ´Stalinlaan´(= Stalin Street)? I think it is now called ´Vriheidslaan´. Can anyone explain this? Feb 16 07, 9:59 PM

lanfranco

I skimmed a Dutch Wikipedia site, which indicates that after World War II, streets in Amsterdam were named after Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. The reason would certainly have been that they were the leaders of the Allies who had defeated the Nazis, who had, of course, occupied the Netherlands. It seems that following the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, the name "Stalinlaan" was changed. Feb 17 07, 8:12 AM