Being disciplined, polite and law-abiding people, even the most conservative-minded Europeans would have swallowed yet another affront to traditional values, however absurd it might have seemed, but Christmas should not have been touched. At that moment, European citizens of Christian orientation and origin clearly sensed the smell of brimstone drifting in the air from the institution led by the grand dame Ursula von der Leyen.

What are these weird suggestions from Tvaika Street that send shivers down one's spine! What virus has nested in the brains of Brussels bureaucrats, what eggs of liberal fanaticism have been laid in their heads! From the side of the continent's natives, voices full of indignation were raised and a red warning signal flickered – stop dictating how to speak, how to think and how to behave, stop the attack on freedom of speech, or to put it more neutrally in Latvian – stop walking all over us!