Since history is not what happened in the past but what scholars and others in any given generation wanted to think about the past, any name given to a building or monument could be changed every so often by politics and ideology. Just look at Tsarist Russia, Red Russia, Putin’s Russia. Just look at Germany: the Germany of Bismarck, the Germany of Weimar, the Germany of Hitler, and so on. Perhaps buildings and monuments should, like public schools below high schools in many cities like New York City, should simply get numbers. I went to elementary school in my youth in public schools 164 and 34 and have never had to apologize. I did go to high school at Andrew Jackson and were I politically correct would have to apologize I suppose, but I won’t.
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