The State Historical Museum opened an exhibition of "Happy New Year, dear goods

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in the State Historical Museum opened an exhibition of "Happy New Year, dear comrades!"

The exhibition - the entire history of New Year celebrations in the Soviet era, from 1935, when the decision of the Komsomol Central Committee decided: young students can have fun to meet the coming year. In 1936, the Soviet Union celebrated the first New Year. This "rebirth" of the New Year, it is seen secretly preparing. Toys went on sale almost immediately, greeting cards - too. The exhibition can be seen touching greeting from his granddaughter - grandmother, where the girl wants her to live to communism.

The exhibition will remind the older generation's childhood, and the new teach those traditions, which are held in the Union for the New Year. For example, in the hall served before New Year's table, on which - the required attributes of a holiday - a jar of caviar (red and black), roasted chicken, a bottle of Soviet champagne, cognac and Georgian white wine. Next - mannequins with festive outfits for the whole family, my mother - low-key dress, the pope - a suit, and his son - a children's sea form. For girls dress suit or a little snowflake fairies with wings made of wire and gauze, embroidered with sequins. There is also a New Year's menu times of stagnation. It working people as a main course offered a festive table jellied fish - Salmon.

Today's children will surely enjoy the tradition of making Christmas decorations out of paper. In 1936 he published the first book on how to properly celebrate the New Year, at the same time - in the thirties - began to print sheets of paper with cars and houses, collecting and pasting that kids can decorate their own tree.

In many families, Christmas decorations are passed from generation to generation and at the time when the whole family dresses up Christmas tree, the elders tell stories about the younger of each toy. In the families are still preserved cardboard red stars on a string, a fabulous pink pelicans and brown bears from moving wires - the ones who let in the 30's - 40's and the ones that brought so much joy to their little owners. Now they are - part of the exhibition, but if your home is such a rare collection of artifacts (in fact in our country to the Christmas decorations have always been treated with care, have inherited), do not throw them away. Hang on tree-2012 and will see it return to you that perhaps the child has already forgotten the joy of the holiday.

In the 50's - 60's holiday tree decorating ritual was part of political information. Toys instead of cardboard and wire now preferred to make glass and all - case. There were amazing collection of space toys (for the first flight into space), bright - the circus (for the film "Circus"). There were also collections devoted Aybolit and delicious-looking fruit and vegetable toys for the Christmas tree in the Khrushchev-style, of which necessarily attended the corn. However, the constant and favorite motif in all the Soviet years were "Christmas" and Red Pioneers.

Soviet Santa Claus was also an active member of society. He went to BAM, and the icebreaker sailed, often took with him to the attacks and granddaughter - the Snow Maiden, which was reflected in figurines of the main symbols of the year, adding to the bag of gifts, the staff and an additional coat of Soviet symbols.

In the late 1930s and 1940s were remarkably beautiful invitations for children's events, which were held in the Hall of Columns: folding, sliding. It was not just a ticket, and a full Christmas decorations. This tradition continued for a long time: At the exhibition you can see which invitations were given an excellent student at the Kremlin Christmas tree in the 70s and 80s, each of them prepared with imagination, some - in verse, while others - like pull-tabs, or letter envelopes. Here - a collection of Christmas and Christmas cards and stamps from the early twentieth century, postcards of the Great Patriotic War, the packaging from Christmas gifts and holiday posters and invented over the years. One of the most touching, strangely enough - from the 30s. It pulls the blond kid kumachovy box to the portrait of the leader of the people, and by that image - greeting: "Happy New Year, dear Stalin!"

In the "Children's New Year's Day" at the show - costumes and masks. You can dress up and clown, and chanterelles, and a gray wolf. But perhaps the best costume - bunny ears out of paper and cloth and wool from the tail, which every Soviet mother was preparing her son for a hike in the morning performance in kindergarten.

Exhibition ends the story of the first official celebration of Christmas Eve in 1991. Then, dressed in GUM first Christmas tree on which hung gifts and cards from American friends. Thus ended the history of the New Year in the USSR.

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