sincerely, tatyana ivanovna khromova from moscow of course, in the west, the commercialization of the christmas holiday has reached fantastic proportions. strictly speaking, the meaning of the holiday drowned. a lot of people do not think about it and do not want to think about it, because all the energy of people on the eve of the holidays is especially aimed at visiting shops and entertainment centers. huge shops become centers of pilgrimage in on the eve of the feast of the nativity of christ, we are in a slightly more advantageous position for the reason that the church lives according to the old julian calendar and we celebrate the nativity of christ. uh, after new years. and the peak of our shopping just falls on the western christmas period, but in our country in our modern consumer culture, the christmas period is also associated with commercialization, and this is very bad, it is dangerous. the holiday should not lose its spiritual and historical dimension. he shouldn't. uh get out of people's minds like events of sacred history if people remember and know what and for what,