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Date Posted: 10:05:42 12/07/04 Tue
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Christmas time
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Christmas time" on 09:25:50 12/06/04 Mon

Another interesting observation is that in the same way as capitalism has deformed "Saint Nicholas" to Santa Claus and shifted the Nicholas day to Christmas, communism did the same thing. They deformed Nicholas (who is very important for Russians) to a tale figure called "Ded Moroz" (Grandfather Frost) and replaced Nicholas and Christmas alltogether with Ded Moroz and New Year. Capitalism and Communism both don't go very well with the idea that God came to us as a baby in a manger in order to rescue us from our sins.

more about "Ded Moroz"

And actually, again we see that the Protestants caused this whole mess because they did not want to accept Nicholas' day...



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