2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
The history of the country, its culture can be judged by the holidays celebrated by its inhabitants. For the most part, holidays are significant dates. They carry the memory of events that happened once. And by the way we celebrate the holiday, how we honor these events, one can judge the whole nation.
The Day of Accord and Reconciliation appeared on our calendar in 1996. Prior to that, the anniversary of the Great October Revolution was celebrated on November 7th. Almost a hundred years ago, the Russian people rebelled against the autocracy and paid a dear, bloody price for their freedom. More than one generation of Russians treated the date of November 7 with reverence. The autumn holidays were expected almost more than the New Year. Demonstrations along the central streets of cities were an indispensable attribute of the celebration. And at the same time, there was no need to “call”, order, force anyone. Demonstrating was considered a natural, self-evident act, a tribute to the memory of heroic people, a reverence for the great day.
On November 7, 1996, a decree was issued that changed the name of the holiday and gave it the name "Day of Accord and Reconciliation." Officially, this was done in order to mitigate differencesbetween members of different social classes. But the revolution is the merit of the entire Russian people, regardless of national characteristics. Then what was the disagreement about?
Be that as it may, the decree was passed. A new name appeared on the calendar, thereby crossing out everything that millions of Russians associated with this day. But now it is unlikely that anyone will answer why this date is called the "Day of Reconciliation and Accord." Most of the inhabitants of our country are perplexed with whom and why it is necessary to put up and agree.
However, the innovations did not end with the renaming of the date. Less than ten years later, the holiday was completely abolished. At the end of 2004, the Day of Accord and Reconciliation was cancelled. November 4th was designated as a new holiday. Of course, in itself this date is significant and takes us back to times even more ancient than the Great October Revolution, namely to 1612. Then the people's militia was able to liberate Moscow from the Poles who captured it, put an end to the Time of Troubles, which lasted more than a quarter of a century. The Russian people believed that the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Kazan helped in this. Therefore, by order of the king, the day of November 4 was honored as a holiday of veneration of this icon. It was nationwide until 1917, when the new government abolished it. Although believers still considered and continue to consider it a holy day.
So it turns out that our governments go around in circles. First, the official celebration was abolished 4November, making a national holiday on the 7th of this month. Then they abolished the anniversary of the October Revolution, calling it the "Day of Accord and Reconciliation", and then completely got rid of this holiday, returning to 1612.
The result of such rearrangements was a complete confusion in the minds of our people. Not every adult, not to mention schoolchildren, knows how the Day of Accord and Reconciliation differs from the Day of National Unity. And this can only mean that the Russian people are losing the memory of their history. And who knows if the day will come when the powers that be will abolish Victory Day as a symbol of discord between the Russian and German peoples?!
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