> > St Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad) > > Now that just strikes me as funny and sort of ironic. Wasn't > it known as St. Petersburg for quite a while before the Reds > renamed it to Leningrad?
There was a joke during the Communist era that had an old man saying "I was born in St Petersburg, grew up in Petrograd and have lived all my adult life in Leningrad. I hope to die in St Petersburg". For many people it came true, happily. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
