Interesting question, Rae! I poked at the PDF archive of 1e canon. Direct references seem to be rather sparse.
The 1e core rules' timeline and Mediterranean Cruise both establish the Turkish offensive into Bulgaria (which we fleshed out a bit in our Romania work) as launching on Christmas Eve 1996. The RDF Sourcebook states that Tabriz fell to Soviet forces on Christmas of the same year.
Bear's Den has the PCs arriving in Lviv "around Christmastime," when holiday cheer masks the turmoil around the module's events. A quick skim didn't unearth any details beyond a single rumor.
My campaign is scheduled to restart next month. The PCs are currently in mid-October 2000, so it'll be interesting to see if my players decide that their characters will do anything for the holiday. The American PCs did celebrate Independence Day when it rolled around...
- C.
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