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Old 06-02-2021, 10:50 AM   #337
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Originally Posted by Makarov View Post
To be clear, I'm not aware of one person suggesting that things be erased from history books. Indeed, most people (UCP excepted of course) advocate for the opposite.


I think China has the best street names in the world. But it isn't quite true that no streets are named after people. For example, I know of several Zhongshan Roads.

Zhongshan might be the only one. I'm surprised the Communists didn't rename it.


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Originally Posted by BMStrikesAgain View Post
The posts stating "we have to be careful/erase history " etc are so cringe.. that's not happening. And Chinese street names sound similar to Calgary ones.

Calgary has lots. Deerfoot, Crowchild, John Laurie, MacLeod, McKnight, Barlow, Anderson, Brisebois
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