GLORY TO THE PAGAN GODS....

5500 YEARS BEFORE ARRIVAL OF CHRISTIANS ON RUSS THERE WAS PAGANISM - SET OF GODS WHOM SLAVS WORSHIPPED. THE SLAVS WERE CHILDREN TO THE GODS, NOT GOD'S SLAVES. BUT WHEN THE CHRISTIANS CAME AND FORCED THE SLAVS TO BECOME CORRECT, ORTHODOXY APPEARED. AND ON BEHALF OF THE SLAVE OWNER, THE CHRISTIANS SAID TO THE SLAVS, "FROM NOW ON, YOU ARE GOD'S SLAVES. THE SLAVS' DEMOCRACY WAS REPLACED BY SERFDOM. IT WAS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY. THE SERFS FLED HERE. THE TSARS DID NOT PERSECUTE THOSE WHO FLED. AND THE "RUSSIAN NORTH" EMERGED, FREE AND GREAT. AND FREEDOM TURNED INTO PROSPERITY OF THE REGION. HOLIDAYS AND CUSTOMS OF PAGANS HAVE SURVIVED TO OUR DAYS....