The mother of a soldier told why she achieved the renaming of the Saratov restaurant “Cambridge”

The owner of the Saratov restaurant “Cambridge” was forced to change the “unpatriotic” name of the institution after an anonymous complaint from the mother of the mobilized.

We talked to the very woman who initiated the scandal.

The history of the renaming of the Saratov restaurant “Cambridge” began in March. Then an anonymous message from the mother of the mobilized man appeared in city public pages demanding to change the “enemy” name of the institution. The woman was supported by the deputies and the council of veterans of the Gagarinsky district of Saratov. The City Council organized a round table on this matter.

Residents of the city conducted polls in social networks. “For” the renaming were 98 people out of 686 voted. “Against” – 176. The rest put a tick in the column – “anyway.”

As a result, the general director of “Cambridge” Yevgeny Reimer gave up. “There are no more significant problems in the Saratov region than terrible English toponyms, which, as one of the activists said, “promote socially unstable and morally low behavior to the citizens of our country, teach our children to disrespect the history of their country” … We weighed everything “for ” and “against”, and decided that we would not fight with windmills – so as not to constantly think about where the wind blows. And now we will be called “Hermes,” the restaurateur wrote on the social network.

We talked to the same woman who started it all. She asks not to reveal her real name: “I hide my name for security reasons. First of all, I’m worried about my son. After all, he is in the NWO zone, his name cannot be called, as well as show his face.

– Why did you not like the name of the restaurant?

I didn’t know about this restaurant myself. My son noticed him when he came on vacation after SVO. He was at our dacha, there was a restaurant “Cambridge” nearby. It was painful and unpleasant for my son to know that enemy countries and their culture were glorified in his small homeland. He told me about it. And I, in turn, decided to publicize the story. I wrote to the public of the deputy and hero of Russia Alexander Yanklovich. He immediately responded that the name needed to be changed. He was supported by veterans and the public. We have sympathetic people in Saratov, who are not indifferent. They support the NWO fighters very strongly. They help in every way.

– Why didn’t your son turn to the deputy himself?

– He was only on vacation for two weeks, then he again went to the NWO zone. He has other tasks now. But he and his colleagues are grateful to me for this.

– The restaurant opened long before the special operation. Has your son reacted calmly to Cambridge before?

– Understand, now everything is perceived sharper.

– Judging by the messages in social networks, not all residents of Saratov supported you.

– Many people supported me. I want to separately thank the veterans of the Gagarinsky district, they have collected hundreds of signatures. So I’m not the only one, we have a whole army. We fought to be heard. And we were heard. The name has been changed. So everything was not in vain.

– The director of the restaurant was simply forced to change the name.

– Nevertheless, the decision was made, the name was changed. The owner himself said that he would not call the restaurant that now. I feel sorry for the guys who sometimes at the cost of their lives defend their homeland and fight for a peaceful sky above their heads. Including fighting for these same directors of restaurants. In my opinion, this cannot be put on the scales.

Have you been to that restaurant yourself?

– No. But it is important that the owner changed the name. I think that it is necessary to promote our culture, to develop patriotism. And there are no trifles in this matter.

– There are many restaurants in Saratov with unpatriotic names – “Soho”, “Odessa”, “Palermo” …

– Cambridge is a city in the UK. This country sponsors Ukraine. My son’s friends are dying at the front. It turns out there are no guys, but there is Cambridge. I myself do not go to restaurants and do not know what establishments there are in our city. If the authorities deem it necessary to contact other entrepreneurs about changing their names, this is their right. I will support. I think that the relatives of the fighters and the servicemen themselves will also not stand aside.

– Did the new name “Hermes” suit you?

– “Hermes” arranged for us. We are not against foreign words. We are against praising countries that support Ukronazism. This is completely different.

Has the restaurant changed its sign yet?

– Honestly, I was no longer in the country. So don’t know.

– In Saratov there is a shopping center “Pentagon”. Does this name bother you?

– And what’s wrong with the name Pentagon? This is a figure in geometry, a pentagon. And the shopping center is located in a building of this shape. Therefore, there is no ideology and propaganda here, as in the case of Cambridge.

– The Pentagon is the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.

– These are your associations. I have others.

Local deputies did not stop at one “Cambridge”. In the Saratov region, discussions continue over the names of catering establishments. The recently opened Belgium restaurant is on the agenda.

Deputy Chairman of the Regional Duma Roman Chuichenko spoke about this at the next meeting: “It’s great that many people manage to exist outside of politics. The strategy of an ostrich with its head in the sand also has a right to exist. Nevertheless, the ability of people to step on the same rake is surprising. Part of the society seethes with rejection of signs of public catering enterprises containing the names of locations from unfriendly countries, but against this background, their number is only increasing … The Belgium bar is preparing to open. That is Belgium. The name of the country where NATO headquarters is located. An organization that never stopped the cold war against us. Now I’ve decided it’s time to get hotter. Belgium also recognized the Ukrainian Holodomor. Which is also an extremely unfriendly act in terms of interpreting historical realities. What’s on people’s minds?”

Really, what’s on people’s minds? It looks like it’s time to think about renaming “foreign” settlements. For example, in the Chelyabinsk region there are villages Paris, Berlin, Leipzig and Ferchampenoise. In Bashkiria there is a village of Venice. In Dagestan – the village of Luxembourg. And the Altai Territory has its own Warsaw.