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Video: Superstitious names of the USSR: why the children were called Dazdraperma and Lunio
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Everyone knows the phrase: "what you call a boat, so it will float." Names of people are not an exception. Many people believe in this theory. That is, the fate of a person directly depends on the name chosen for him.
Often, expectant mothers and fathers spend months before the birth of a baby in search of the best name. The choice we have is more than great. There are true Russian names that have remained popular for many centuries, for example, Ivan, Yaroslav, Svyatoslav, Vladimir, Igor, Yuri and others. Many have remained in the past and today, if they do occur, it is extremely rare. But there are also very strange names, both female and male, whose emergence was influenced by the era and events that occur in a certain period of time. The USSR is a vivid example of how life can influence a person, his thinking, actions, and even the choice of a name for a baby.
After power passed to the Bolsheviks and widespread socialization began, many incomprehensible and very strange names appeared. Propaganda played one of the most important roles in this.
In honor of Lenin
Someone from personal experience of life in the Soviet Union, someone from history, but everyone knows that Lenin was the most significant person at that time. It was his general secretaries who idealized, set him up as an example. Naturally, the people blindly followed them, which could not but affect all its areas of activity, in particular, and folk art. Characteristic names began to appear that were directly related to the Leader of the Revolution. Many of them, like Vladlen, are deeply rooted. And today, after decades, some parents call their sons that. Well, initially the name was deciphered, like Vladimir Lenin, only in an abbreviated version. Widlen is another variation on this theme, which means “The Great Ideas of Lenin”. But our contemporaries no longer perceive the name. The phrase "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - the father of the revolution" was also condensed into one single word - this is the name Vileonor.
Each of the names mentioned still sounds pretty good today. They simply call their children, especially without going into historical details. Someone just likes consonance, someone extravagance and rarity.
In contrast to them, there were such names with which their owners then suffered all their lives. Imagine that there is a boy named Lorierik in your class or course. This already raises many questions. Well, if you delve into the meaning of the name, then you can completely go crazy. Try to remember this decoding - Lenin, the October Revolution, industrialization, electrification, radioification and communism. In our time, indeed, there would be poor this Lorierik.
But that's not all. There was also Lunio. This word encrypted "Lenin died, but the ideas remained." Had Lunio been born now and found out about the meaning of his name, he probably would not only have changed it immediately, but would have run away from his parents.
And finally, it is worth mentioning another masterpiece - Orletos. Here, too, you can break your brains. This abridged version contains "The October Revolution, Lenin, Labor - the Foundation of Socialism."
By the way, this is not the worst thing yet. There were also completely delusional ideas from the category of schizophrenic.
It's impossible to live with it
Despite the fact that Lunio, as well as Orletos, vaguely fit in our head, it is still possible to live with them somehow, especially if we do not go into details of their origin. But a number of female names born in the USSR are a tool for destroying a person's self-esteem even in infancy.
Let's start with Dazdasmygda, which means “Long live the link between town and village”. From the same series Dazdrasena and Dazdraperma. In the first case, it is "Long live the seventh of November", in the second - "Long live the first of May." Can you imagine how the girl Dazdraperma could feel?
Another hit of the names of the sixties is Vaterpezhekosma, which not everyone will be able to pronounce. The translation is “Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman-cosmonaut”. How poor girls, girls and women lived with all this is not clear at all.
Unusual, but consonant and beautiful names
All in the same period of the Soviet Union, quite beautiful new, albeit not quite ordinary, names appeared. These include several: Isaida, which hides the phrase "Follow Ilyich" (we are talking about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin), Rome - "Revolution and Peace", Gertrude, which means "Heroine of Labor", Diner - means "Child of a new era "And Lenora - abbreviated" Lenin is our weapon ".
The listed options are only a small fraction of what was born in the imagination of Soviet citizens. Some names are quite pleasant to the perception, others are terrifying. The only good news is that modern parents are in no hurry to call their own kids that way, exactly how to retrain a left-handed person on the right hand.
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