Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

Bert tells me that says "Happy New Year!"  So, not another Christmas card.  :)

 

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[sabotabby]

Soviet-era New Year's cards are my jam. Christmas was never a big deal in Russia even before 1917, and New Year's, being secular, basically became secular Soviet Christmas. One year, my BFF (who grew up in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union) was in town and we celebrated in the traditional style, sadly minus the tree. One day I will get a New Year's tree with a red star, and thus I can fulfill all my secular-Jew-growing-up-in-North-America holiday urges.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

:)

I've noticed space-age/space-race imagery in pictures of other Soviet holiday cards too, and I dig that. This is interesting, how the secular holiday got the Christmas trappings. Us atheists have our task of cobbling together what angle(s) we want to take on the "season" too, I reckon.