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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ... by eveningcoffee on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:23AM (#18890743)
It kind of makes sense. If they had to appeal to the western image then they had to chose between capitalist Santa Claus and catholic Saint Nicolas.

Considering that Christmas was not officially celebrated in the Soviet Union and private celebration was repressed to a various degree then they were left with a single option.

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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ... by aasasd on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:52AM (#18890815)
Those cards are for the domestic market (pretty obvious from Russian writing), and that's ‘native’ Ded Moroz, not Santa. He just does look that way, possibly due to earlier cross-pollination.
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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ... by eveningcoffee on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:32PM (#18892855)
Obviously it is for the domestic market and it is Ded Moroz. The question was that why does it look more like a Santa Claus than Saint Nicolas. It looks here even more than the Santa than in the earlier version.
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