the holiday was returned to children by the bolshevik pavel postoshev. on new year's eve 1936, the newspaper pravda published his article in which he suggested: let's organize a good christmas tree for the children for the new year. from that moment the story began. soviet cotton wool toys, professional teachers and methodologists worked on christmas tree decorations, there were such manuals where they advised that you involve children in decorating the christmas tree, my mother and i also decorated it together and i did the same some homemade toys, then there was a catastrophic shortage of christmas tree decorations in the country, which is why soon in the artels... they launched the production of cotton toys, the craftswoman sculpted each figurine from cotton wool with her own hands, for which they were even called sculptors, soviet-themed toys were created that should have carried such correct patriotic education. by the end of the thirties, the cotton toy in the soviet union became probably the most popular christmas tree decoration. if you look thro

only a year has passed, and no one remembered pavel postoshev, on the street christmas tree gratitudeindergarten or for little ones, he is here, or at school, he also shades the holiday with his presence. 80 years ago, moscow children for the first time go to the big christmas tree celebration in the columned hall, they come in, now they see it for the first time, huge, twelve meters high, it begins, the script of this very first, future main christmas tree of the country has still been preserved, the beginning of the beginning, the origins of our soviet magic , what's in it? thanks to comrade stalin for a happy, joyful childhood, here the main slogan of the holiday, typed on a blue carbon copy. so in carbon copy round dances, they then went on these new years, parsley pranks, funny little animals, never seen before or since, toys and a portrait, the size of a tree. stalin, the great stalin is with them, such a time, another week in the columned hall, a completely different decoration, a table under the cloth, a military college. the february-march plenum of the central committee decl

the holiday was returned to children by the bolshevik pavel postoshev.