Christmas in the Evil Empire

Christmas in the evil empire was different, you see, though not always worse. By the time we went to live there at the end of the gorbachoff era, the festival was no longer actually banned. In soviet moscow, young pioneers no longer patrolled the wintry streets searching for subversive christmas trees. The air no longer trembled with the sound of cathedrals being dynamited or great bells being torn from their towers as it had done in starlin's day. There were even attempts to restore some of the many orthodox churches and monasteries desecrated by use as warehouses or reformatories. Next we have peter hitchins, a red christ