A quick note on Santa and Chrismas: here Little Jesus brings the presents (these are fairly new development) >>33489 , Saint Nick has his own feast on Dec 5-6th or so. But as Santy Close, with his red coat and big white bear, he is a relatively new phenomenon.
To be honest maybe should scroll through the thread from the start to see what has been said.
I wrote about regölés here: >>33446
For Orthodogs New Year is more important as a public holiday. They probably keep Christmas closer to the original church celebration as it was. Here Kotolicks has their midnight mass and such too. But in parallel we have this thing with the tree and presents. I blame protestants.

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>The link [...] Let's try this again
Thanks work.