My entire life, whther while i was living in Japan, Germany, or the US, the spelling of Kiev and the pronunciation of it has remained constant. I know the locals will have different spellings and pronunciations just like cities and personal names throughout the world, but this has completely changed in the West over thw last few weeks. Now its Kyiv (Keev) vs Kee-ehv.
I know this seems small or trivial, but this is extremely fishy to me.
Nah, this one isn't ME because the claim isn't that it was never Kiev (kee-yeh" but rather that the name changers (a la, Constantinople to Istanbul, or St. Petersburg to Leningrad to Petrograd back to St. Petersburg). Real unexplainable MEs, like say Red Bone's "Come and Get Your Love" ("heeeeey"), the "official" present reality will deny the correct version, the version you remember, was never the way you remember and assert that you're crazy and have false memories. Of course we know we aren't crazy... for some unexplained reason, reality changed. But these renaming efforts are certainly evidence of gaslighting, which it's possible that MEs are just a highly, highly advanced level of gaslighting