When communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989 street names celebrating communist heroes were soon changed. Leningrad reverted to its' former name of St. Petersberg. Stalingrad didn't wait that long for a rename and was changed a few years after Uncle Joe's death to Volgograd in 1961. All of the statues celebrating communist heroes were removed some of which ended up in "museum parks"in out of the way locations. To leave statues in prominent places erected in honour of the proponents of slavery in the 21st Century speaks volumes to the ingrained racism that percolates not just in the population but among politicians in America.