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0 pointsadamors4y ago0 comments

Maybe you don’t know but here in Romania we have our fair share of streets named after anti-semites and-or iron guard collaborators.

But you’d probably protest if someone called you an anti-semite for this alone.

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paganel4y ago· 1 in thread

I'm Romanian and we don't have streets named after Antonescu, which is what Bandera was for the Ukranians in WW2. It is illegal to have streets named after Antonescu, because he killed hundreds of thousands of Jewish people in WW2, apparently in Ukraine is still legal to have a street named after Bandera, who collaborated in the killings of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

CRConrad4y ago

> I'm Romanian and we don't have streets named after Antonescu

In your town?

> It is illegal to have streets named after Antonescu

Hm, really? Then again -- and sorry if this comes as a shock to you -- Romania isn't all that well-known (at least in the northern half of the EU) for living up to the law.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30700460 :

> So, let's carpet bomb all those Strada Ion Antonescu it took me all 15 seconds to find across Romania. After all, you are saying it's illegal to name a street like that, so let's de-nazify them. Right?

My own search for "Strada Ion Antonescu" on Google Maps popped up seven results across Romania, but that was zoomed out from Lviv to Thessaloniki to see the whole country. Don't know if there'd be more if I zoomed in.

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