Khrushchev the bus driver, and other famous names

In a village in Kerala, India, where the Communist Party still polls strongly, many children in the last 50 years were given the names of Lenin, Gorbachev, Pushkin and other famous Russians. They recently had a get together in which it was discovered that many of the people with famous names knew little about their namesakes. The village itself has been called Moscow since the 1950s.