Why Santa Claus Banned In Belarus
14- VASIL VERAS
- 6.01.2025, 10:13
- 17,350
The idiocity is growing so fast that you don't always have time to fully comprehend it.
Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few people. Meanwhile, there is a detail that makes this step utterly absurd even for the current Belarusian authorities.
The fact is that the prototype of Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas of Myra. Honoured also by the Orthodox, who are better known as Nikolai the Wonderworker, aka Nikolai the Worshipper.
They decided to substitute Santa Claus with Father Frost. It is also curious here: the latter has pagan roots.
For this reason, the Russian Orthodox Church has always been sceptical about Father Frost. It did not enter into open confrontation, rightly believing that it is noticeably inferior to the folklore old man in popularity. But from time to time it has demonstrated its ‘fe’: for example, through the mouth of Hieromonk Filip, deputy chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, who stated that ‘Father Frost and Snow Maiden are becoming more and more pagan’.
That is, they chose between a Christian saint and a pagan figure the latter, which clearly demonstrates the level of religiosity of those who very soon will be mentioning the name of God in vain at the Christmas service.
However, that's not all. Russia went even further and launched a video in which air defence systems are firing at Santa Claus.
‘The Orthodox army, led by a pagan character, shot down a saint revered by all Christians,’ political scientist Aleksandr Saygin commented on this creativity.
‘Good Father Frost’ is rapidly acquiring new features in Russia. The notorious philosopher Aleksandr Dugin asked for such a gift for himself:
‘Father Frost, destroy the globalists and liberals. Please.’
Here it would be appropriate to cite what Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media, said earlier and on another occasion:
‘Orthodox Christians address their requests to God, not to Snow Maiden and Father Frost. I have not heard that sane adults communicate with fairy-tale characters, unless we are talking about those who are in a psychiatric clinic. What is appropriate for young children is a sign of mental illness for adults.’
As a result, while in Russia they are only discussing whether to recognise Santa Claus and other ‘corrupting Christmas influences of the West’, it is worth noting that they are dictated by the banal uncompetitiveness of the ‘Russian world’. It has never managed to produce anything comparable in popularity to Jingle Bells.
And Father Frost, despite all his promotion, is gradually giving up his position. As a result, while in Russia they are only discussing whether to recognise Santa Claus as a foreign agent, the authorities in Belarus have already declared him ‘persona non grata’.
These crazy attempts to ‘expel’ Santa from the country are, paradoxically, good news. What is happening demonstrates a new level of degradation of the regime, which is approaching its finale. The Soviet Union also banned a lot of things - and how much did it help it?...?
The USSR is long dead, but Santa is ‘more alive than ever’. And he will easily outlive his current persecutors, too.
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