🥂The Main Event: Christmas / New Year’s

💡 Here, my friend, is the plot twist. In Russia, New Year’s Eve is the superstar, the glittering, champagne-soaked heart of the winter celebration. The Soviet era downplayed religious holidays, and New Year’s swooped in, stole the tinsel, and became the ultimate secular festival of gift-giving, feasting, and magic.
Your American Christmas is a warm, cinnamon-scented hug of family, carols, and sentimental reflection. It’s Norman Rockwell with a Amazon Prime subscription.💡

🎄 To be continued...

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🧸The Russian New Year is a tsunami of joy. It begins with the President’s address at 11:55 PM, a speech so anticipated it rivals the ball drop. Then, as the Kremlin chimes midnight, you scribble a wish on a piece of paper, burn it in a candle flame, stir the ashes into your champagne, and drink it. It’s dramatic, slightly dangerous, and infinitely more romantic than making a resolution you’ll forget by January 2nd.

🕯 To be continued...

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❄️🌏USSR 11 – 1 Canada🇨🇦
World Championship • April 24, 1977

❄️Team Canada returned to the World Championship after a seven-year boycott, and for this tournament, they arrived with NHL players whose teams had missed the playoffs. In this game, however, the Soviet team routed their opponents completely.

❄️This defeat remains the worst in Canadian national team history. Despite an energetic start to the tournament, Canada ultimately finished without a medal. The competition was extremely tight, with only a single point separating all three medalists—the Soviet team itself only managed to secure the bronze.

☃️The star of the 11–1 victory was Alexander Yakushev, who scored four goals (a "poker") and was named the game's best player. In their second meeting of the tournament, the Soviet squad overwhelmed Canada once more, though slightly more modestly, with an 8–1 win.

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☕️The Feast: Turkey vs. The Salad That Unifies
Your table has a majestic turkey, ham, maybe a yule log. It’s comforting, traditional, predictable.

⭐️To be continued...

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The red-haired traveler was spotted on the subway🚗

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🥂The Verdict:🎆

Your American holiday is a heartwarming family sitcom—full of love, predictable chaos, and a guaranteed happy ending by the fireplace.

The Russian holiday is a magical realist epic—a whirlwind of snow, mystical rituals, theatrical toasts, and a celebration that laughs in the face of the darkest, coldest nights with defiant joy and a side of mayonnaise-based salad.

So, which is better? My dear American reader, why choose? The world is richer for having both. Perhaps the most romantic notion of all is to borrow a little from each: string your lights with abandon, but maybe, just as the clock strikes twelve, write a wish, set it aflame, and stir your dreams into the champagne of the new year. Just mind the curtains.

S Novym Godom and Merry Christmas 🦌

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⭐️ "Alice in Wonderland."
Part 1

It’s a Soviet three-part animated film based on the fairy tale of the same name by English writer Lewis Carroll, shot in 1981 at the Kievnauchfilm studio (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). The cartoon is a screen adaptation not specifically of Lewis Carroll's original book, but of the first edition of its translation by Nina Demurova.

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