Ontario's liquor retailer pulls vodka brand after Ukrainians complain name refers to Stalin - CBC

Ontario's liquor retailer pulls vodka brand after Ukrainians complain name refers to Stalin - CBC (4)

Eestlased Kanadas | 26 Jun 2021 | EWR

The vodka company's website says the name was inspired by the Russian word 'stal' — meaning steel. Stalinskaya, they say, means strength. But the Ukrainian community says its reference to Joseph Stalin is 'offensive.' - pics/2021/06/58428_001_t.webp — The vodka company's website says the name was inspired by the Russian word 'stal' — meaning steel. Stalinskaya, they say, means strength. But the Ukrainian community says its reference to Joseph Stalin is 'offensive.'

Ontario's provincially owned liquor retailer is no longer selling a Romanian vodka brand due to complaints from the Ukrainian community that the name evokes memories of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) was selling Stalinskaya Silver Vodka online and in its stores.

The vodka company's website says the name was inspired by the Russian word "stal" — meaning steel. Stalinskaya, it says, means strength.

But Julia Mikhailova, an associate professor at the University of Toronto , who holds PhD in Slavic Linsguistics, told CBC News that while the word Stalin may mean "made out of steel," the word stalinskya is a direct reference to Stalin himself.

"We are dealing here with the derivational morphology," said Mikhailova, which refers to the process of forming a new word from an existing word.

"Theoretically, I would say that stalinskaya was derived from the word "steel" (stal) only because Stalin was derived from "steel". However, factually, stalinskaya came from the word Stalin."

Alison Smith, a professor at the University of Toronto specializing in the history of Russian food and drink, told CBC News the term "refers explicitly to Stalin the person, even though Joseph Stalin absolutely took the name Stalin (his birth name is Dzhugashvili) because it was linked to the word for steel and it had the connotation of strength."

'Shock and disappointment'
For Ukrainians, the memories dredged up by the use of the name are anything but positive.

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ignorant27 Jun 2021 11:29

I had no idea EKN had anything to do with this. CBC article only mentions ukrainians. There is no mention about any EKN action on their website, Facebook, twitter or Eesti Elu.

To “Globalist”27 Jun 2021 09:31

EKN is making a difference - unlike the trolls who snipe from safety of their basements in this EKRE swamp.

Globalist27 Jun 2021 08:00

Will EKN claim credit when Putin decides to retire in 20 years?

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