Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Friday, 15 August 2025

Not many people know...

...that Donetsk in Ukraine was,
in the bad old days
re-named Stalino, just as Tsaritsyn
(now Volgograd) was re-named Stalingrad.

[I am like Oliver Goldsmith's rural schoolmaster in the poem
The Deserted Village in which people marvelled
that one small head could carry all he knew !]


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