New Year’s Day – State Holiday

New Year’s Day was declared a state holiday by the Law on State Holidays in 1955. In the early years of socialism, Santa Claus (Deda Mraz) was unwelcome and condemned as a Bolshevik-clerical creation. He was associated with “Ded Moroz,” the King of Winter, which has pagan origins. The Women’s Antifascist Front, an organization responsible, […]