In the USSR, New Year was the only holiday that had no connection to Soviet ideology. New Year celebrations in the USSR had a peculiar fate: at first, Christmas trees and Ded Moroz (Father Frost) were ignored, then they were ridiculed as remnants of the "cursed past," and then suddenly, New Year was elevated to one of the country's main holidays. How did the leaders of the USSR celebrate the New Year, and when did the tradition of addressing the Soviet people with televised greetings begin?
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