Don’t erase Woodrow Wilson. Expose him.

[Martinus]

Wilson is worshipped in Poland. There are only two other US Presidents who have a major square/street named after them.

The others probably FDR and Kennedy?

FDR sure. Absolutely no reason to revere Kennedy. The third one is Reagan.

[celedhring]

Same in the Czech Republic, btw, my perception of Wilson stems from the times I spent there, and how idolized he was by the locals.

Wilsonová is also a major street in Prague.

[Martinus]

He is seen as the father of the post-Versailles order. I bet he is liked in Hungary.

[Syt]

There's an FDR hospital in Bratislava. I once asked a Slovak why it's named for him and she said because he did so much for Slovakia. When pressed she was unable to give any specifics, though.

[Martinus]

I guess we like US Presidents who were in power when a major world war ended (give or take a few months).

So that's Wilson for WWI, FDR for WWII, and Reagan for the Cold War.

[Syt]

There's stuff named for Kennedy in Germany (and Vienna), but I couldn't think of anything named after Reagan.

On googling, there seems to have been some controversy about naming a street/square in Berlin after him.

[Martinus]

Sorry, I was wrong. There is no Reagan street but we have a major Washington Roundabout.

[celedhring]

Wilson is relatively popular in the streets of Catalan towns, due to his stance on self-determination. He doesn't have a street in Barcelona though (Washington, Kennedy, Lincoln and a few others have, but very unimportant ones).

I can't think of many US presidents which have been influential in Spanish history, anyway, so we aren't likely to name large streets after them. There's one president that was pretty influential, but I haven't been able to find a single "Roosevelt" street in a major Spanish town 

[Syt]

One of the public housing projects from the 1920s/30s in Vienna is named after George Washington. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George-Washington-Hof

It puts him in the company of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Karl Liebknecht and other socialists.

[garbon]

I can't think of many US presidents which have been influential in Spanish history, anyway, so we aren't likely to name large streets after them. There's one president that was pretty influential, but I haven't been able to find a single "Roosevelt" street in a major Spanish town 

McKinley was fairly influential.

[Admiral Yi]

One of the public housing projects from the 1920s/30s in Vienna is named after George Washington. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George-Washington-Hof

It puts him in the company of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Karl Liebknecht and other socialists.

American volunteers during the Spanish Civil War named their units the George Washington battalion and the Abraham Lincoln battalion.  Maybe there's some weird socialist significance to these guys we're not aware of.

[Syt]

Well, if I'm guessing that from their point of view Washington fought against the oppression of an autocratic regime, and Lincoln fought for the equality of all men.

[celedhring]

Lincoln was a big socialist icon until the height of the Cold War. He was seen as a man that fought for equality, so nothing surprising about that.

[Razgovory]

I think it's important to remember that Grumbler knew Wilson and Wilson owed him one hundred and twenty bucks that was never paid back.

[Delirium]

I like the original article, will try to use that in one of my history classes.