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Halloween banned in Omsk
Topic Started: Oct 31 2013, 10:36 AM (178 Views)
John D'Oh
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The Omsk education ministry has ordered headmasters in the south-western Siberian region to prevent any attempts to hold Halloween events at their schools, says the Russian government's official daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Any such events are not based on the "fundamental values contained in the culture of the peoples of Russia" and could lead to a rise in "extremist sentiment among children and young people", a ministry directive sent to schools reportedly states.

Members of the Russian Orthodox clergy are also known to object to Halloween. "It only seems to be a harmless and funny joke," warns Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin. "But the dark forces think otherwise: they'll play a joke on you, and you won't enjoy it at all."


Based on the words of the nutjob priest, I'd say banning Halloween is more likely to promote 'extremist sentiment'.
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AndyD
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Seems the American trick or treat activity with kids begging door to door is now frowned upon here in the UK, and I have to say, I agree with the sentiment:

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/Halloween-Window-Poster.pdf
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John D'Oh
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AndyD
Oct 31 2013, 11:25 AM
Seems the American trick or treat activity with kids begging door to door is now frowned upon here in the UK, and I have to say, I agree with the sentiment:

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/Halloween-Window-Poster.pdf
You really need to save your money and energy for Burn a Catholic Day on November 5th, a celebration of traditional British values which I miss enormously.
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Piano*Dad
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hooooooaaahhhhhh, this is how we take over the world. One silly holiday after another!

Of course, the cause is helped when local cultural leaders behave like insecure petty tyrants at a local government office ...
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AlbertaCrude
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Unfortunately in Russia wholly imported and alien celebrations such as Halloween only foster drunken hooliganism among young Russian males. It's bad enough in relatively westernized cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg; in regions like Western Siberia as is Omsk, it quickly turns into rapine drunkenness and violence. I can understand the authorities apprehensions.
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brenda
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Sort of like Hell Night in Detroit.
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John D'Oh
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AlbertaCrude
Oct 31 2013, 06:03 PM
Unfortunately in Russia wholly imported and alien celebrations such as Halloween only foster drunken hooliganism among Russian males. It's bad enough in relatively westernized cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg; in regions like Western Siberia as is Omsk, it quickly turns into rapine drunkenness and violence. I can understand the authorities aprehensions.
That makes more sense - I didn't realise 'extremist sentimement' was code for 'drunkenness', which presumably they don't want to admit to in public.

I have to say, Halloween in the UK was never the delightfully innocent festival it is in the US - my memory of it was vaguely threatening groups of teenagers turning up at my door making oblique references to committing petty crime upon your property if you didn't cough up. We were pleasantly surprised by our first North American halloween, as we were expecting something similar over here.
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Piano*Dad
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It's certainly not our fault if our "innocent" customs metastasize into something ugly when the nobler ancient cultures abroad make "first contact" with us …
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John D'Oh
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I'm sure American children would attempt to terrorise their neighbours if they hadn't eaten so much candy that fast movement becomes impossible.
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AlbertaCrude
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Nov 1 2013, 05:35 AM
It's certainly not our fault if our "innocent" customs metastasize into something ugly when the nobler ancient cultures abroad make "first contact" with us …
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Your customs? Actually the first Halloween celebrations in Russia started at the Shamrock Irish Pub on Novy Arbat Street in Moscow shortly after the USSR dissloved. The pub was a haven for drunken expat businessmen mostly from Eirie, the UK and Canada, PIRA thugs on the lam working as security advisors to Russian hoodlums and, "dollys" - an expat term for Russian and Ukrainian dollar whores looking to turn a trick and possibly a convenience marriage with lonely and cash rich foreigners.

Sorry, but the USA's role in importing Halloween to Russia is insignificant.
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