New Year of Peter I and the Roots of Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden – Their True History

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Some years ago I published an article about the instruction of the Western calendar in Russia by Peter I and the abolishment of the ancient Slavic calendar, counting over 7500 years of history.

While that article is true in all respects, as it is usual with our history, there are even more layers of alterations as one starts delving deeper into a topic. This is also so with the Russian calendar, and the tradition of New year celebration. For those who have not read it, I strongly advise you to read the previous article before continuing with the materials below. There I touch upon the linguistic aspects and two different words for “year” in Russian – “leto” (meaning both “year” and “summer”) and “god” (meaning “year”, with the overt reference to the Dutch word for “God”). In fact the first of the four articles below carries an explanation for why years were counted in summers…

The materials below are comprised of translations of four articles, originally published in “Argumenty i Fakty”, and uncover more details around Peter I reform, then going to the origins of the characters of “(Grand)father Frost” and the “Snow Maiden”. The articles can be read independently, but for a better understanding I would recommend reading them all in order.

Contents:

  1. The Tzar and the Tree. Why Peter I moved New year to January the 1st
  2. Bonfires for the ancestors and the gifts to the terrifying Grandfather. How New Year was celebrated in Russia
  3. Snow-mai-den! The history of the Russian character, which has no analogues
  4. According to Old Style. Why did the New year made do without a Tree

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USA’s plans for the nuclear annihilation of USSR (Russia) and China disclosed

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What does one call a country that plans to kill millions of people in a cold blooded first strike attack, and measures its level of success in the number of civilians killed and the percentage of the civilian infrastructure destroyed, reducing the attacked nation to a non-viable condition?

A rogue state?

A terrorist state?

Actually, it’s called USA.

In the recently-declassified documents, the US military details such plans of an all-out nuclear first strike against the USSR and China. I have written before about the American plans to drops 204 A-bombs onto the 66 of the largest Soviet cities, including Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev… The plans below are shown to go to an even greater detail in actually measuring the level of “success” such an attack would have, in the magnitude of the CIVILIAN casualties.

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“The Great Gas Game” – An Excellent Documentary from Vesti

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The Gas Wars are continuing. Starting well during the time of USSR, when the USA tried to stop the supply of the Russian gas to Europe by the means of sanctions and provocations, through the Ukrainian gas machinations, when Ukraine was used as a patsy to sabotage and undermine Russian supplier reputation, while at the same time blackmailing Russia for cheap under-market-priced gas, which I wrote about in a 2014 article The Third Gas War: EU and US must pay for their “successes” in Ukraine.

Now the USA are trying to sabotage Nord Stream 2 by blackmailing Germany. This follows the successful blackmailing and sabotage of Bulgaria, which stopped the construction of the South Stream and depriving Bulgaria of about $700.000.000 and $800.000.000 per year over a span of 50 years – USA and EU successfully stole from Bulgaria about $37.500.000.000

And before that, USA/NATO invaded and bombed Yugoslavia, bombing into oblivion the gas refinery in the Serbian town of Pacevo in 1999.

All this recent, and not so recent, history is very well chronicled in the new English-subtitled documentary from Vesti: “The Great Gas Game”

UPDATE 2022: Since YouTube applied the “freedom of speech” principle and removed all speech that does not conform to the American directive on freedom, i.e. all Russian channels, including the one from the VGTRK that hosted the documentary, I re-uploaded a backup copy, which I happened to have, to Odysee.

Newsflash: Another provocation is being prepared by Ukraine for the end of December

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Following the Ukrainian botched provocation in the Kerch strait, the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev is gearing for a new round of provocations on the Russian border.

This information comes from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and should thus be viewed as highly verified.

In the press conference below, Lavrov underlines that any such provocation will fail to entice a war between Russia and Ukraine, which the Western handlers of the Kiev regime so desire.

More details in the following reportage about how Donbass is preparing to fend off the imminent offensive from the Nazis.

Major Ukrainian Military Provocation in the Kerch Strait

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The provocation that many have been anticipating after the EU’s Mogerini earlier basically hinted to Proshenko that he should stage something in the Sea of Azov (the inner Russian/Ukrainian sea), has now taken place.

The Ukrainian vessels breached the accord of 2003 and failing to notify the Russian sear traffic controllers in the city of Kerch plunged on through the strait, thus violating the Russian territorial waters.

They ignored the demands to stop and started dangerous manoeuvres at which point the Russian Coast Guard had to intervene and stop the Ukrainian rouge vessels. Among other things, a terrorist attack on the bridge was feared – the Ukrainian politicians have many times aired the idea of performing a terrorist act on the Kerch bridge.

FSB now published the documents, seized on the Ukrainian vessels, where the captain was ordered to enter the Sea of Azov covertly, taking off all their Ukrainian markers and identifications (in Ukrainian):
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Newsflash: BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES PREPARING CHEMICAL ATTACK IN DONBASS

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As always, the best way to prevent a customary Western false flag attack, is to make as many as possible aware of its possible preparation. To this end…

Reported by Fort Russ on the 22nd of November:
BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES PREPARING CHEMICAL ATTACK IN DONBASS

FRN has confirmed from our sources on the ground that the data obtained by the DPR intelligence, in which a group of British military experts arrived in Artyomovsk, is likely to be correct. Of particular concern is that this operation, done in concert with Kiev, is being conducted in order to carry out a chemical attack in the north of the Donbass People’s Republic. While this was initially revealed at a briefing in Donetsk on Wednesday, November 21, by the head of the press service of the Office of People’s Militia, Captain Daniel Bezsonov, speculations circulated that the DPR’s announcement contained an error or over-statement.

Based upon our conversations from persons in the DPR associated with a Cossack groupment independent of Russia and Donetsk, on the condition of anonymity, the arrival of British personnel has been confirmed.

According to Captain Daniel Bezsonov of the DPR’s press service:

“The Ukrainian side does not leave intentions to conduct a chemical sabotage in the north of the DPR. Our intelligence obtained data on the arrival at the headquarters of the 72nd brigade in Artyomovsk a group of military specialists from the UK, ” the DAN news agency quoted him.

According to available information, some of the arrivals are part of the units of the special op forces of the United Kingdom. Also, according to intelligence reports, in the populated areas of Dacha and Dzerzhinsk, 2 and 5 km from the contact line, the arrival of special units with individual chemical protective equipment and boxes with signs of chemical danger has been observed.

The Clinton – Yeltsin Collusion — How USA Interfered in the Russian Affairs and Elections

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The devastating period of the Wild ’90s during Yeltsin’s reign of chaos, is a topic which I have previously covered on multiple occasions, and which I will be coming back to in the future.

This time, I want to draw your attention to the newly-declassified documents, pertaining to the communications between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin. These documents are especially telling in the current “Russian elections meddling” hysteria, which has engulfed the United States. In a flurry of accusations, backed by so far zero evidence, the US accuses Russia of swaying the public opinion in Trump’s favour by placing a few ads on Twitter. As the Russian saying goes, “a thief is always screaming ‘catch the thief’ loudest of all”. This perfectly illustrates the situation in the USA, in light of their continued and brazen track record of meddling in other states’ affairs, and in this case, specifically the Russian affairs during the Wild ’90s period.

The Clinton Digital Library declassified the Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

RT made a short digest of 5 highlight points from this 591 page long publication:

‘Smart’ Putin & election loans: 5 must-read Clinton-Yeltsin exchanges released

The exchanges include:

  • Clinton sends ‘his people’ to get Yeltsin elected
  • Yeltsin questions NATO expansion
  • NATO bombing of Yugoslavia turns Russia against the West
  • Yeltsin asks US to ‘give Europe to Russia’
  • Clinton on Putin: ‘He’s very smart’

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New Samizdat – a news aggregator to break through the Western media censorship

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Well, it increasingly looks like the Western “freedom of speech” and “democracy” are the two sham concepts that the West is shedding off.

A new aggregator has been launched by RT, in the wake of a flurry of censorship, banning and criminal prosecution (as proposed in Denmark) of alternative media and people holding alternative views, that is those not towing the US government line.

New Samizdat

The name has a historical reference to the once strict censorship of news in the USSR. “Samizdat” literally means “self-publishing”, and was a phenomenon in USSR, where dissenting books and articles would go underground and be “published” by way of spreading hand-written or machine-copied copies of the prohibited works.

And the “New” in New Samizdat indicates that the West has completely committed to the path of censorship, just like USSR once did (with the consequences that we all know about), and that a similar, now digital, phenomena arises in the West as a response to the censorship and banning.

Here is what RT had to say about New Samizdat
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The roots of the looming global religious war uncovered

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In her recent article, Lada Ray covered some very important, yet hidden for a Westerner facts about the brewing religious war, which USA and Canada are instigating by promoting the schism in the Orthodox (Pravoslavnaya – “True Faith”) Church.

Please read the full article at

NEW From the Creators of Kiev Maidan: USA Actively Subverting Greece & Instigating Religious War!

with a fragment reposted below:

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Russian FM Lavrov’s speech at UNGA is akin to Cat Leopold teaching mice good manners

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There is an iconic Soviet children’s cartoon series “The Adventures of Cat Leopold”, where a kind, friendly cat is attempting to teach two misbehaving and downright evil mice to behave and to live in peace. “Guys, let’s live in friendship” is the cue of Cat Leopold. Whatever he tries to do to teach those mice – good example, showing them the errors of their ways, nothing helps. They are soon back to their old ways of making Leopold’s life a living hell. More often than not the mice fall victim of their own traps and provocations, thus illustrating the Russian proverb: “Don’t dig a hole for someone – you’ll end up falling into it yourself”.

In one episode, the ever-kind and balanced Leopold gets prescribed a medicine, “Wilderine”, to make him act more like a raging leopard. That seems to get the mice’s attention for awhile. Yet, at the end of the episode Leopold is back to his kind ways, enticing the mice to “live in friendship”.

Here is the episode in question: “The Revenge of Cat Leopold”

And here is a collection of several other Cat Leopold cartoons:

Why am I writing this? Because Soviet and now Russian actions, trying to make the West behave in a peaceful and well-mannered way are akin to Leopold’s attempts to make the mice behave.

And I am afraid that today’s excellent speech by the Russian FM Lavrov at UNGA is yet another such attempt, falling on deaf ears.

UPDATE 2023: In a bout of enforcing the freedom of speech and democracy, in 2022 YouTube removed the RT channel, while the West blocked the RT site. The link below is update to an uncensored mirror of RT.

Drop the diktats, try diplomacy: Major takeaways from Lavrov’s UN speech

“But history didn’t teach us anything,” Lavrov said, adding that allegations “based on the notorious ‘highly likely’ thing are sufficient for some Western counterparts to pin the blame on anyone.”

“We do remember how often these unfounded claims were used to justify interventions and ignite wars, such the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, 2003 invasion of Iraq and 2011 intervention in Libya.”

“Colonial-era diktat and coercion should be sent into the archive or the dustbin of history.”

Moscow believes constructive dialogue can meet any challenges that arise in world affairs, according to Lavrov.

“If you have any questions or claims to anyone, then sit down and talk, show facts, listen to your counterpart’s arguments, try to balance your interests.”

BREAKING: Israeli aggression cost 15 Russian servicemen their lives!

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Today, Israel yet again attacked Syria in the cowardly despicable way. This time the provocation happened just a few kilometres away from the Russian naval base! This must be viewed as the most open to date attempt by the American-Israeli axis to provoke WWIII.

The attack was performed in such a way, that the Russian IL-20 military turbo-prop plane came into the cross-fire from the Syria air defences. In short, Israel used the Russian pilots as a human shield for their sneak attack on the Syrian infrastructure.

An important note: This Israeli aggression comes just as Putin and Orban were holding talks in Moscow. The previous time Israel attacked and bombed Syria was on the 9th of May – The Victory day, just as Netanyaho was duplicitly sitting at the parade in Moscow.

Adding insult to injury, Israel is laying blame for the Russian pilots’ death on the victim of their pirate attack – on Syria! It’s akin to a rapist accusing their victim for dressing too prettily…

The current status, is that Russia is attempting to avoid starting WWIII though diplomacy. However, knowing how the Turkish provocation a few years back went, Israel will be in a lot of pain for this vile act, not speaking of the ongoing Israeli holocaust of the Palestinians, which Israel has yet still to atone for.

Rest in peace, brave Russian pilots. You will be avenged. As the WWII memorial slogan goes:

No One’s Forgotten. Nothing’s Forgotten.

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It was a Ukrainian BUK missile that shot down MH-17

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UPDATE: Below is the official complete video of the Russian Ministry of Defence presentation, in English:


Amidst the current whirlwind of the news, there comes a highly-important press-conference from the Russian Ministry of Defence, which sheds additional light on who shot down MH-17 over Donbass in 2014.

Here are a few highlight quotes from the overview of the briefing.

Serial numbers of missile that downed MH17 show it was produced in 1986, owned by Ukraine

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ALERT! Western-backed terrorists are all set to launch a chlorine chemical false flag in Idlib – Russian MoD warns

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‘Chlorine delivered’: Idlib militants ‘readying false flag attack’ in Syrian village – Russian MoD

Militants in Syria’s Idlib have transported several canisters containing chlorine to the village of Bsanqul, apparently preparing to stage a false flag chemical attack, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

The chlorine-filled canisters were delivered by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants of Tahrir al Sham, formerly known as Al-Nusra Front, a spokesman of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, Lieutenant General Vladimir Savchenko, said in a statement Saturday. He added that the latest developments showed that the militants are preparing for a false flag attack that would be used to accuse the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against its people.

USA conducting biological warfare experiments on the population in Georgia

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I am presenting below a snap-translation of an article from the “Argumenty i Fakty” (“Aguments and Facts”) newspaper of 11.09.2018.
The atricle’s title is “Secret ulcer. Do the US conduct experiments on people in Georgia?”

It is worth noting that alarming reports about the creation of the biological weapons labs were also coming from the US-occupied Ukraine, as well as in Kazakhstan and Armenia (source 1, source 2). This is especially worrying coupled with USA openly seeking Russian DNA samples for some sort of “research” (source 1, source 2 eng), presumably to breed the weapons capable of targeting specifically Russians.

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The Salisbury Farce Continues

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What with the final push of the Syrian Army – with the Russian and Iranian help – against the US/British-backed terrorists in Idlib, the resurrection of the Salisbury farce was almost a given. So when news of an arrest warrant of the “highly-likely” fake Russian residents appeared in the British news just as the offensive in Syria started, I was not at all surprised by the perfect timing.

I was going to write a short satirical piece about the tragic-comical farce that unfolds in Britain, where the British government is highly-likely expecting their population to be dumber than a banana fly, to believe the nonsense spewed by MSM such as BBC.

However, RT beat me to the punch with the article Salisbury plot thickens, questions without answers multiply where the author lays out all the main plot points that would have made Agatha Christie cringe at the ineptness of the plot writers.

And speaking of “punch”… The plot that the British government concocted around Salisbury would have qualified for the “Punch and Judith” show slapstick comedy style.

Judge for yourself. Here is a short highlight summary of the events that the British government wants us to believe, no questions asked:

  1. The two “Russian nationals” fly to Britain using fake Russian passports. This is almost on par with the narrative of the terrorists’ passports always turning up that the crime scene to immediately identify them. Why would not those “Russian nationals” use a fake, say, Ukrainian passports, since the Western MSM would like us to believe that Russia is at war with the Ukro-nazi… whoops – democratic Ukrainian regime? Or why can’t that be Ukrainians travelling under fake Russian passports to incriminate Russia?
  2. So these two “Russian nationals” took a bottle of a military grade highly toxic highly volatile substance on a plane and all went well. No traces of Novichok there.
  3. At the hotel they had to spray a bit of this substance, which does not seem to affect Russians, yet is said to be so deadly that a single droplet of it would be enough to kill half of the population of Salisbury.
  4. The they go to Salisbury and sprey this highly lethal stuff on the door handle. They themselves walk away unharmed – remember this stuff does not work on Russians
  5. Skripals touches the door, but.. the stuff still does not work on Russians – so he goes to a restaurant and has a nice meal, walking about for 4 hours
  6. Then they fall ill on a bench. A passing policemen inspecting them, falls immediately ill. Remember, this is potent stuff, though not for Russian.
  7. This is further proven by Skripals making a recovery from the most deadly poison known to man (according to the British media)
  8. Skripals’ pets die. But not from poison, but form starvation, having been locked down in the poisoned house for many days. The sole surviving cat as eliminated as a witness.
  9. The two “Russian nationals” casually throw the bottle leaving the incriminating evidence behind.
  10. A hapless woman picks the bottle up, uses it and dies. Poor soul. So far she is the only victim of this military-grade nerve agent.
  11. And all this time Porton down – a military chemical lab, that is known to have actually produced Novichok, is calmly observing this lethal farce from just 10km away.