From the first to the ninth: why do the New Year's holidays constantly want to cut

The festive marathon dates back to the 1990s and every year bypasses all government proposals to reduce the number of non-working days. We understand why we want to rest for a long time on the New Year's Eve and how useful it i

As before, if you trace the history of the New Year holidays in Russia and the USSR, then the trend towards an increase in the holiday period, and then to unsuccessful attempts to reduce it, will become obvious. Most similar to the current situation is the situation at the end of the 19th century: the law allowed citizens not to work on Christmas, New Year and 12 more holidays. In the early years of Soviet rule, only January 1 was considered a day off. Everything changed the resolution of the SNC of the USSR, in which the word 'holidays' was replaced by 'revolutionary days' — and to them the New Year and especially Christmas was simply impossible to attribute. Christmas trees returned to the life of Soviet people in 1935, but the New Year was considered to be exclusively a children's holiday, which meant that adults did not need a day off. This continued until 1947, when, for the first time after the war, 1 January was restored to holiday status. Writer Tatiana Tolstaya devoted an entire story entitled “An Empty Day” to this day: “How would we have lived if it hadn't been for this day...