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Show Pre-Red Russia Noted New Years Before the revolution, New Year's was a gay and happy time in Russia. In some cities the streets were decorated with flags and lanterns and thronged with merry-makers. The year was ushered in with a hundred shots fired from cannon. One New Year's Day the Winter Win-ter Palace was opened to society. Festivity reigned throughout the city, hospitality and charity were the watchwords from palace to cottage. The mythical Ovsen was supposed sup-posed to be around about this time. He was usually depicted astride a boar, symbolically associated as-sociated with the pork served for New Year dinner and the symbolism symbol-ism of Aryan descent. |