With the end of October fast approaching and the accompanying annual festival, it is only appropriate that Russian politicians come up with some of their own appropriately creepy ideas.
Russia Today reports on one such suggestion from the Public Chamber.
The Public Chamber, an official body that prepares laws and acts as a think-tank, wants restrictions on Halloween celebrations in Russia on the basis that Halloween parties 'turn into orgies' [I think they should stop fantasising about the online porn they've been viewing and watch the news instead] and 'induce lowly feelings' [well, you don't want anyone else doing the government's job for them, do you?!].
Georgiy Fyodorov, a member of the Chamber, has based his lightbulb moment on complaints from around Russia and the concerns that youths in costumes are unacceptably scary. And it's not hard to see what he means.
[Evidence one: terrifying teens pretending to be zombies]
[Evidence two: the sane, rational, refined, intellectual arena of Russian politics at the Duma]
Fyodorov also described Halloween as "culturally alien to the Russian way of life". This view was echoed by Yaroslav Nilov MP, who wants the government to promote national holidays instead of foreign ones [conveniently forgetting... that New Year is linked to the Gregorian calendar, invented by the Italian-born Pope Gregory XIII; ...that, although the modern form of Women's Day is based on Russian events, the first ever one was an American idea several years earlier; ...and that Christmas was first celebrated in Rome and honours the birth of a Judean]
According to the article, last year the Russian Orthodox Church disapproves of the festival as the start of a slippery slope into misery and similarly officials in Omsk banned an event on the grounds that "celebrations relating to the cult of death and its
personification can have devastating consequences"[presumably they've never read the Bible].
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So, what do I make of all of this? Halloween revellers should be punished appropriately: those dressed as ghosts should be exorcised, werewolves shot with a silver bullet, zombies decapitated and vampires stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake.
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