I edited the title because my grammar is terrible

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I mean, March used to be the first month. Traditionally, New Year used to be a spring holiday. In Ukraine, the original lyrics of the Carol of the Bells sing about the spring beginning

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      8 months ago

      Ukraine recently moved it back though to align with the Western New Year celebrations if I recall correctly. More of a “fuck Russia we’re gonna do our own thing” cultural move.

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        8 months ago

        That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia