Rodina is amusing the public again. It offered to change the official Russian (Gregorian) calendar back to the Julian’s style, so “the Russian Orthodox Christmas would be coming ahead of the New Year’s eve”. As I wrote before, the Julian calendar is 13 days apart from the Gregorian, which is used today, and the change was made in the last few centuries at different times in the different countries. Russia switched to it after the Communist Revolution in 1918.
Rodina finds no inconvenience and problems in putting the nation 13 days apart from the rest of the world, and in the reasoning of the change being “to preserve the logistics of the Orthodox Christmas”. Maybe that’s why Russians become more and more aggressive towards those who are not like them – Russian and Orthodox. For example today three people were injured in a Russian Synagogue in Moscow, after a skinhead jumped into the building with a knife, yelled out that he was there “to kill them all”, and started slicing people with a knife. As a result the citizens of America, Israel and Tajikistan were severely injured.
Besides that, Rodina states that “the both calendars are imperfect”. Nevermind that a one day inaccurate difference adds up in 128 years on the Julian calendar, while it takes 3,333 years on a Gregorian calendar to match the “imperfection”. Rodina also doesn’t see any troubles for the businesses that are operating internationally, the answer pretty much was “let them deal with it”.
I would guess this changes are impossible, because they have no relationship whatsoever with the reality or the nation’s needs. The Russian Orthodox Church is very excited about the proposal, and will lobby for it to take the place. I am on the other hand excited to see insanity in action – Russia has more problems than any other country I can think of right away, and the elected officials are wasting their time on complete nonsense.
