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List of places named after Joseph Stalin
During
Joseph Stalin
'
s rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the
Soviet Union
and other communist countries were
named or renamed in honor of him
as part of the
cult of personality surrounding the dictator
. Most of these places had their names changed back to the original ones shortly after the
20th Congress
of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
in 1956, or after the beginning of
destalinization
in 1961.
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