When I was a kid, Halloween was a holiday for children. Now it's a major celebration for grownups. But in Moscow, it's completely backwards: schools are supposed to ignore Halloween.
Halloween is being forced underground because it "includes religious elements, the cult of death, the mockery of death," a spokesman for [Moscow]'s education department Alexander Gavrilov said on Wednesday.
For everybody else, Happy Halloween!
Russia is having a very strong Christian movement in their country since fall of the atheist USSR government. Authentic Russian Orthodox symbols are a very special value now.
Posted by: Derek | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 10:56 AM