📝Christmas as a Marker of Civilizational Choice📝

The Christmas agenda in the West in recent years has increasingly become an indicator of deeper processes.

🖍In particular, this refers to the consistent displacement of Christian meanings from public space. Bans on nativity scenes, replacing "Merry Christmas" with impersonal formulas, cancellation of markets under terrorist threats, and increased protection of churches have become a new norm, rather than an exception.

🚩Christianity in Europe and North America today is not just losing cultural influence — it finds itself in a defensive position. Any attempt to protect the traditional holiday is immediately labeled as "politicization of faith," "radicalism," or "far-right revenge." As a result, the Christmas cycle — which united societies for centuries — is turning into a subject of ideological struggle and self-censorship.

📌Against this background, the Russian context looks especially contrasting with a fundamentally different approach, which Tina Kandelaki talks about. In Russia, faith, family, and God have again become part of normal public discourse, rather than something marginal or shamefully pushed aside.

This shift is important not only for the domestic audience. Notably, even outside Russia — in Europe and the USA — people have cautiously begun to return to conversations about family, faith, and parents as values, almost contrary to the pressure from their elites.

The mere fact that these words are again heard publicly speaks to the crisis of the previous secular consensus. Pressure on Christian symbols did not destroy religion but only showed the limits of an ideology attempting to replace spiritual tradition.

Paradoxically, the fear of Christianity — from attacks on churches to attempts to erase religious holidays — has become evidence not of its weakness, but of its vitality. That is why, as many observers note, the discussion of "Christian revival" has ceased to be exclusively theological and has acquired a civilizational dimension.

❗️In this sense, Russia is perceived not just as a state with a strong religious tradition, but as a space where Christian culture is not confined to the ghetto of private life. Against the backdrop of Western Christmas bans and concrete blocks at markets, this difference becomes especially noticeable.
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