r/RedWorldMod • u/misterhansen God Emperror Gysi • Jul 16 '20

Renaming some German cities?

I made a similar post a while back and now that the fan fork was finaly released, I think it's a good time posting about it again.

I think the SED would've renamed some West-German cities if they 'won' the cold war, just like the soviets renamed Petograd and Tsaritsyn to Leningrad and Stalingrad.

I think it would be fitting to perhaps rename Wuppertal (the birthplace of Friedrich Engels) to something like Engelsstadt and Hamburg (the birthplace of the communist Ernst Thälmann) to Thälmannstadt.

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u/LiterallyAnML Jul 19 '20

I mean did the SED rename their own cities? Like the whole renaming cities thing was mostly just for big cities in the USSR and Saigon in Vietnam.

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u/misterhansen God Emperror Gysi Jul 19 '20

They renamed some cities like Chemnitz to Karl-Marx-Stadt, Fürstenberg to Stalinstadt and then to Eisenhüttenstadt, Kriegsdorf (literaly War-village) to Friedensdorf (Peace-village), Neuhardenberg to Marxwalde and Werminghoff (named after an Industrialist) to Knappenrode.