Claiming Christmas is the last salvo of the Ukrainians against Russia
MAKARIV, Ukraine — Russia took almost everything from Tetyana Kuvtun. So she retaliated in the only small way she could: she reclaimed Christmas for the Ukraine.Celebrating December 25 instead of January 7 — the date Russians and other Eastern Orthodox Christians observe Christmas — Kuvtun is putting up little opposition to a larger Russian cultural hegemony that many Ukrainians see as part of Russia's invasion.“The civilized world celebrates December 25. So we would like to do that too,” she said, sitting in the small modular home she now shares with her family after Russian artillery destroyed her home months ago.…
