Why did the Soviet authorities celebrate the New Year everywhere?

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Why did the Soviet authorities celebrate the New Year everywhere?

New Year, a holiday as we know it, with Christmas trees, Santa Claus, Blue Lights, chimes and feasts, is a relatively recent phenomenon created in the Soviet Union and not even in its first years. How and why did the Soviet authorities plant it in society and how did they replace Christmas and other ancient winter holidays in the USSR with it? “Down with Christmas!” The October Revolution of 1917 and the creation of a “new society of workers and…