[ExI] 1984 and Orwell's Warnings

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> Rafal:
>>It is extremely tedious and odious to find streets and plazas in my
>>birth-city of Bytom continuously renamed. From "Kaiserplatz" to
>>"Hermann Goering Platz", to "Plac Stalina", to "Plac Thelmana" to
>>"Plac Solidarnosci", little political rat-creatures gnawing at names
>>and places, ever eager to erase the blackboard and to repeat old
>>mistakes.
>
>>Once a name is given, and achieves sufficient currency, it is almost
>>always a wrong idea to change it just to spite others or to suck up to
>>them.
>
>
> It was extremely *refreshing*, and inspiring to the coming of the
> Independence  to the Baltics to see old names restored, so that instead
> of "Lenina iela", the original "Brivibas (Freedom)  bulvaris" had
> returned ....

### Wouldn't it be better to leave the enemy's words still defacing
the buildings, an occasion to mention the dark times, a reminder of
past weakness?

Evil must be remembered.

Rafal