Summary
Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day, using 184 missiles and drones, resulting in power cuts across the country.
Ukrainian President Zelensky condemned the attack, calling it “inhumane” and a “conscious choice” by Russia.
Despite the damage and casualties, Ukrainians remain resilient, celebrating Christmas amidst the crisis.
I thought Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Christmas, but turns out this was changed last year.
Ukraine has been dealing with Russian influence and subterfuge in its country on such a scale for centuries that its essentially like a brain parasite, they’ve had to resort to some extreme measures to try to combat this control, there’s no sense in being soft or cautious about it anymore as Russia has launched a full scale war against them and the way their troops and statesmen have behaved, they’ve essentially declared their intent is to exterminate the very idea of the nation.
so when those are the stakes. Ukraine will do a lot of things that seem weird. changing christmas, forcing themselves to stop speaking russian and speak ukrainian, etc. its total war. this is what happens in total war.
the russian orthodox church is also under the direct control of the kremlin, Patriarch Kirill is a KGB gangster like Putin, he just wears a fancy hat, but most of his preaching about god is usually in relation to killing and fighting. its just a state war church at this point.
Eastern Orthodox in particular. Plenty of other Orthodox churches have adopted the Revised Julian calendar so Christmas falls on the 24th. At least until the leap years desync.
…which is of course still a bit off the solstice (more like 21st or 22nd) but that has been the case for basically forever as people forgot which holiday it was they declared to be baby Jesus’ birthday.
Twas always a sham. A shame. A flutter
The Christians bewitched by a powerful other
Their Lord, born with harvest, Almighty Lover,
Was born not in darkness through which we shudder
It has. In my family we celebrate Christmas as a secular family event. But we now meet up on the December 25th not on Jan 7th.
They still mostly celebrate orthodox Christmas despite this change
How do you know this? Do you speak Ukrainian? Have you ever been to Ukraine?
Keep in mind that I live in Ukraine.
Can you tell us how it really is ? I am genuinely interested.
Some people still celebrate on the 7th, most have switched to the 25th. The switch to the 25th seems irreversible, at least on territories that are not under occupation.
Christmas celebrations still have a much more secular character relative to say the US.
I have a bunch of coworkers in Lviv
And what do they say? And which exact Church are they refering to?