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Originally Posted by Targan
The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7th, so notwithstanding that official Soviet policy was to eventually have a religion-free society, I doubt very much Soviet political and military leaders would feel any obligation to not launch nukes on December 25th.
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Good point. I'd forgotten about the calendar differences. Given Russia's recent (IRL) December 25th, Christmas "celebration" in Ukraine, I too doubt the Soviet high command would hold off on strategic offensive operations on high holy days of any calendar.
I still wonder, however, if cantonment commanders might, on their own initiative, call for local ceasefires on special occasions.
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