Chernenko’s Name Erased from Ship
The late Kremlin leader Konstantin U. Chernenko’s name has been removed from a passenger ship named after him, the government newspaper Izvestia said Sunday, adding that he had become unpopular with the Soviet people.
The move downgrading the memory of Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s predecessor as Soviet leader came in a joint edict of the Communist Party Central Committee, the Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the highest state body.
It followed a flurry of decisions to strip the name of another former Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, from things and places named after him.
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