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The Three Santas of Slovenia
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Yuguslavia's Christmas Man
Yuguslavia relied on the soviet union for economic assistance, and tito decided to borrow from its culture too. In slovini, he's called dedi maras,. Dedi moras looked like an enormous bearded man from the russian countryside. He would appear in factories amanifwer being pragmatic, he was probably a someone from the factory team, dressed up. The children would come to the factory, and then they would have this positive association with going to the factory. And is this the good communist alternative to catholic saint nicholas or capitalist santa claus? A political crisis threatened to end dedic morass before he had even had
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