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The last Noël in the USSR

The last Noël in the USSR

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

It was on Christmas morning in Moscow in 1990 that my daughter, then aged seven, realised that Santa Claus was not to be trusted. She had made the usual elaborate suggestions to him in a letter to Lapland (perhaps hoping that, being posted from a frozen region, it would get through more readily).

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