Day #25: Perm

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Walked round a museum today, where I learnt that during Communist times Russians were discouraged from practising religion, which meant that Christmas decorations were produced that bore no resemblance to anything that one would normally associate with Christmas, featuring instead things like vegetables and spacemen.

I also learnt that when Christian missionaries first reached the Urals, they found the natives were used to worshipping wooden carved icons representing their own Gods. The only way they could persuade them to worship Jesus was to produce wooden versions of Jesus, which are now a distinctive feature of Christianity in the Urals.

It's these small details I find most interesting!!

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Photos

Soviet farming poster
...promoting the use of modern farming methods