Archbishop Nicholas
But at the time of Peter in the tradition of celebrating Christmas tree just came. Where does Santa Claus come? The modern Santa Claus is likely to comes from the ancient spirit of the myths of the Eastern Slavs – Jack Frost. The myths of the spirit is the embodiment of natural forces and has a violent temper and harsh. If anyone read Russian (and Ukrainian) folk tale Jack Frost, he remembers, that those who like to work and take care of Jack Frost will be given gifts, and Jack Frost will not touch them (apparently do not freeze), and those who are lazy and greedy, will be punished or even ruined (killed). Often in ancient tales Happy End might not be. Here such was the Santa Claus of the ancient Slavs. The modern image of Santa Claus appeared about 100 years ago and has been promoted actively by Soviet filmmakers in the 1930s. The most curious thing that the current prototype is a Santa Claus a story of a real person – Archbishop Nicholas from the Turkish city of Peace.
So why am I all? If you look at a retrospective of the last five years under our control, we tried every way to restore the "historical truth ', and strongly reject the entire Soviet and pro-Russian. And what about New Year? How is Santa Claus? It seems that Viktor and soon gets here. And why not? After all, Santa Claus terrible idol of the Communist era, from you want to get rid of. This dedugan – another way of political pressure on the common historical past.
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