Unlike in the US where Christmas is spotlighted, the Soviet Union emphasized the New Year as the big winter holiday. Christmas, Hanukkah, and other religion-based holidays were celebrated but the socialist state focused on New Year’s as it signified the coming of the new. In many Soviet holiday cards, we observe Ded Moroz, or Father Frost as he is known in English, with either a cosmonaut, a rocket, or generally modern innovations. This signified that it was labor, organized for the good of humanity, and not mysticism, that brought joy to the people. Join us for a light-hearted class for New Year’s Eve!
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