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Coming to you live from the midst of Russian snowy Christmas (real Christmas - the 25th December, not the 7th January like Russia believes) and the roads are white chaos!
In a stroke of super-duper Christmas irony I have just witnessed a big red coca cola truck being stuck in the snow... A little truck attempting to drag it out (it's always the real thing! --- sorry couldn't resist).
And then came the realization- British and American Christmas is the sham. The real Christmas day is the 7th of January, but it was changed by the-powers-that-be roughly two hundred years ago.
So British Christmas is not the real Christmas, but here is what I can say; no one does it better than Europe! The marketing, the traditions, the stories, Dickens, goose, turkey, presents. We do it properly. It's more than a religious holiday. It's family. It's a memory maker. It's a patience teacher (waiting to open that gift, waiting to receive, or even waiting to give a gift and see that reaction.)
Christmas isn't "here's a pressie, where's mine? Happy birthday, Jesus."
It's an indescribable emotion, something that says "let's stop all the BS. Let's have an excuse to stop and breath."
For Russians- New Years Eve is their real Christmas. This is their time to stop and breath. And they do it in style- for a whole week (that suicidal first week of Jan... Probably explains why Russians aren't big on the suicide statistics.)
In the words of tiny Tim; God bless us, everyone!
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