Most Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians. But in July this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill into law making 25 December the official Christmas holiday as the country adopted the Western, Gregorian calendar.
  • nekandro@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Isn’t the Roman calendar an Orthodox thing? Aren’t like 60% of Ukrainians Orthodox?

    Every day Ukraine loses more of its cultural identity as it gets “Westernized” by the West and “Russianified” by Russia.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      as it gets “Westernized” by the West and “Russianified” by Russia.

      What.

      72% of Ukrainians declare themselves orthodox, literally the same church as Russians. Only in 2018 they had the schism but solely on political reasons, not the religious ones, to grab state control over the church.