Lenin Street

 After walking through the neighborhood of San Rafael, I crossed into Colonia Cuauhtémoc, a fairly affluent neighborhood on the north side of the Paseo de la Reforma.  As I was walking down the street, I noticed that on each lamp post there was a poster.  These were reproductions of vintage Soviet propaganda posters, many of them featuring Comrade Lenin himself.

 

I could not figure out why these Bolshevik posters were decorating the street.  The neighborhood is very bourgeois... the residents' political leanings certainly would not even be mildly socialist, much less communist!

Then I noticed the street sign.  All the streets in this neighborhood are named after rivers, and I was on Río Neva.  OK, here is your geography quiz.  Where is the Neva River?  Answer:  the Neva River flows through St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia.  That must be the explanation for the Russian posters.

Now I am curious.  If I go to Rio Danubio Street will I see posters of Johann Strauss?  Does Río Nilo have pictures of ancient Egyptian ruins?  I guess I am going to have to do some further exploration of this "colonia" also!