Talk:Mikhail Kalinin

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Should this be redirected to Mikhail I. Kalinin? -- Schewek 21:14, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Cities

It would be interesting to know why Tver reverted to its historic name after the collapse of the Soviet Union but Kaliningrad did not. Sca (talk) 20:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Presumably because Kaliningrad's previous name was Konigsberg, a relic of the era when the area was German-speaking. At the end of World War II the German-speaking people in East Prussia evacuated westward so as to avoid the Russians. 69.121.6.97 (talk) 16:45, 26 January 2009 (UTC)captcrisis

"Evacuated" is a euphamism for what happened to the German population of what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast.

In any case, one wonders why Kalinin apparently still merits the recognition implied by Kaliningrad continuing to be so named, when Leningrad has gone back to being St. Petersburg. Why couldn't they call it Кёнигсберг?

Sca (talk) 20:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Law of Spikelets

Why shold be empatised that he signed the Law of Spikelets? He in fact signed any all-union law. This was his job. And laws were adopred by the supreme council and Kalinin had no veto power, so his signature worth nothing.--Dojarca (talk) 11:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)