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::Actually the significance of the birth of Russian democracy on Christmas Day is something Western journalists tried to obscure, but we need to write about it. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:03, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
::Actually the significance of the birth of Russian democracy on Christmas Day is something Western journalists tried to obscure, but we need to write about it. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:03, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
:::It was the 26th, was it not? that would make it boxing day. --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 22:04, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
:::It was the 26th, was it not? that would make it boxing day. --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 22:04, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
::::It was Christmas Day that Gorby folded shop, they rung down the hammer n' sickle from the Kremilin, and Yeltsin took over. The 26th would be the first full day.
::::There are actually several meanings to the 25 of December, not the least of which is modernization, that is to say accepting the Gregorian calander, because as you know in parts of the former Soviet Union Christmas is still celebrated on the old calander. Then Soviet Premiers have taken in recent decades to making a sort of "State of the Union" or Christmas message, despite atheism being the official position. In all actuallity, Gorby was set to fold shop months earlier, and Yeltsin poised to take over, but they waited til Christmas, cause this is just traditionally the time Soviet people are accustomed to hearing from their leaders on non-crisis big events. And of course finally, most significant of all, the choice of using the Christmas as the new Russian "Fourth of July" was a pointed statement to the world about the new Russian democracy's stance on (1) separation of Church and State issues; (2) declaring a multicultural multi-ethnic state fundementally a Christian nation. These things, for obvious reasons, were totally ignored by Western media. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:17, 18 April 2007 (EDT)