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of "the beloved leader" would leave its imprint on the character of Moș Gerilă. Children's New Year gifts were associated less with Moș Gerilă and more with the state itself, personified by
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During the period from 1944 to 1948, Romanian Communist Party newspapers tried to denigrate the image of Christmas, emphasizing, for example, the peasant origins of many
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In the three years following the installation of the Communists in power, Christmas celebrations were transferred to the New Year, December 30, the day when King
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and was adopted by the Romanian communists, under influence of the Soviet model, as a new name for Moș Crăciun (
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published an illustration of Moș Gerilă as a young, athletic, proletarian, bare-chested man.
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was considered too religious, and therefore instead of Moș Crăciun, (the Romanian name for
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means "frost" in Romanian. Moș Gerilă's name is a translation of the Russian
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In 1948, after the Communists took power in Romania, the word
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Moș Gerilă depicted in the Romanian communist newspaper
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is the name of a character from Romanian folklore and
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