Talk:Red Square
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Widsith in topic red
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Why is it called the Red Square? Because Russia adopted state capitalism for a while? --Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 12:18, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
- It's sort of a mistranslation. The Russian adjective кра́сный (krásnyj) does mean "red", but when the square was named it had the meaning "beautiful" (now archaic). Ƿidsiþ 07:00, 13 May 2016 (UTC)