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Ukraine moves Christmas to Dec. 25 to ‘abandon’ Russian tradition
Nypost ^ | 07/29/2023 | Jacob Geanous

Posted on 07/29/2023 12:55:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Here’s hoping you have a very unhappy holiday!

Ukraine is so eager to spite Russia, it passed a law changing when it celebrates Christmas.

The country will now mark the holy day on Dec. 25, dropping the Russian Orthodox Church’s tradition of celebrating the holiday on Jan. 7.

The bill’s sponsors believe the change will help Ukraine “abandon the Russian heritage of imposing the celebration of Christmas on January 7,” while helping Ukrainians “live their own life with new traditions [and] holidays,” The Guardian reported.

The change was passed by Ukraine’s parliament earlier this month and signed into law Friday by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Ukraine; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: christmas; missusclaus; rudolph; russian; santa; santaclaus; tradition; ukraine
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In other news, Zelensky decreed:

“All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.”

22 posted on 07/29/2023 1:52:09 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Not just the Russian Orthodox celebrate Christmas on January 7th (Three Kings Day) - all Orthodox churches do.


23 posted on 07/29/2023 1:52:57 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the Ukies are not going to like that. Their tradition here in our Upstate Community is in January. They do celebrate Christmas for the kids...


24 posted on 07/29/2023 1:55:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukrainians-move-up-their-traditional-christmas-celebration-in-break-with-russia


25 posted on 07/29/2023 2:02:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Allegra

We are the land of Freedom Fries.
ESPN won’t show the flag of Russian or Belarusian players in tennis.

Our world is run by childish t***s. It’s maddening to any thinking individual.


26 posted on 07/29/2023 2:07:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’d probably move it to Hunter’s birthday for a couple billion more.


27 posted on 07/29/2023 2:09:06 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Oh my goodness


28 posted on 07/29/2023 2:20:56 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The UOC indicates it will still celebrate Christmas on 7 January along with many millions of other orthodox churches throughout the world


29 posted on 07/29/2023 2:21:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: ought-six

L.o.L

Like there are not tens of millions of orthodox Christians in the US and many other countries.

Zelensky shares some traits with Herod, another short man of dubious Jewish ancestry, a puppet put in place to rule by an empire power, and who defined tenets of faithful observance by decree


30 posted on 07/29/2023 2:26:15 PM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The majority religion in Ukraine is Orthodox.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/14/split-between-ukrainian-russian-churches-shows-political-importance-of-orthodox-christianity/

78%.


31 posted on 07/29/2023 2:28:44 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ought-six

Actually, many if not most Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7, in many different countries. It’s not so much a Russian thing as an Orthodox thing.

During Soviet times, they had no official Christmas, but replaced Christmas with New Year (when Grandfather Frost left gifts for the children). Stinkin’ atheist commies. But it kinda reminds one of how we turned St. Nicholas into a pagan elf Santa Claus. Hmm.


32 posted on 07/29/2023 2:50:18 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: ought-six

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/14/split-between-ukrainian-russian-churches-shows-political-importance-of-orthodox-christianity/

78% of Ukraine is Orthodox.


33 posted on 07/29/2023 2:50:34 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: elpadre

It’s not because of three Kings Day (Epiphany). It’s the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars.


34 posted on 07/29/2023 2:52:42 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

35 posted on 07/29/2023 2:53:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“The Russian Orthodox Church uses the abandoned Julian calendar. January 7th on the Julian calendar corresponds to December 25th on the Gregorian calendar which we all use.”

Yes, it does use the antiquated Julian calendar — but only for movable religious feast days: It follows the Gregorian calendar for everything else.

Pretty much the whole world — with the exception of a handful of Moslem countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia) and Ethiopia — uses the Gregorian calendar for civil and secular dates (as does Russia).

And the Julian calendar’s January 7 only corresponds to the Gregorian December 25th at the present time; it will change with the calculation of leap year (which is one of the big differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar).


36 posted on 07/29/2023 2:55:09 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: House Atreides

“Sorry… then THIS Non-Christian is DECREEING THAT ALL (e.g., Greek, Ukrainian) OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY is an outlier. How friggin’ presumptuous!”

Well, they are. Think about it: They only subscribe to the Julian calendar for movable religious feats; they follow the Gregorian calendar for everything else.

Orthodox Christianity is followed by about 225 million people, whereas the total population of Christians worldwide is 2.4 BILLION. Thus, the Orthodox number is less than 10% of the total number of Christians. In statistics — depending on the model — that would constitute an outlier; in other statistical models it would not.

That’s not presumptuous.


37 posted on 07/29/2023 3:08:06 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What's next in Ukraine? Churches being forced to marry homosexuals?

Ukraine is everything the left wants to turn this country into.

38 posted on 07/29/2023 3:14:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: mass55th

“Have they stopped eating Russian borscht, and drinking Russian vodka yet?”

Ukrainian borscht is different than Russian borscht. https://www.yobabafoods.com/food/russian-ukrainian-food-difference/#:~:text=Bortsch%20gives%20us%20greater%20insight,more%20likely%20to%20use%20beef. Ukrainians drink Ukrainian vodka - but they banned the sale of alcohol at the beginning of the war.


39 posted on 07/29/2023 3:27:02 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No 12 days of Christmas for you!!!


40 posted on 07/29/2023 3:30:13 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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