Russians celebrated Halloween en masse last weekend, although this year's unofficial ban was stricter than usual. Schools sent warnings to parents, in Krasnodar the police raided teenagers with make-up, in Moscow the riot police arrested converts in Kiti-Gorod. Hundreds of schoolchildren and students still took to the streets, and the bars changed the name of the holiday to "Pumpkin Spa". Let's understand why young people want to celebrate it so persistently. Officially, no one banned the holiday. There is no federal law; The ban is based on recommendations to schools and the diligence of local officials. Cuban authorities have been fighting Halloween since at least 2012, but it returns every year. Businesses change their signs, but do not give up on October 31, and videos of converts on the Kitai-Gorod asphalt have gone viral in all public places. A boy is a rebel by nature. He needs to test the limits and do what adults don't like. Today's officials also listened to Metallica in their youth to spite their elders. The same thing happens with Pasha Technique and streams of foreign agents; The ban only increases the matter. At the same time, no "lost" children went out into the street. Among the articles were quite a few excellent students who went because their friends went, because it was fun and because they are that age. Some teenagers go to Halloween, others sing the Lord's Prayer at the service, and sometimes it's the same people. The administrative class looks at the youth as an object of prevention. On the festive night, the Krasnodar police went around among "responsible families" and checked the documents of schoolchildren in suits, and a local deputy called the holiday "an attraction for degeneration." In sending out tours, the parties admit that they do not know how to work with young people. Their ideal boy combs his hair and smiles forcefully, like an activist in the party's youth wing. Living children do not enter this ghetto. The gap between the age of power and the age of the street was discovered overnight across the country. The desire to change clothes will not disappear, and you can only disturb someone else's vacation with yours.