In the Urals, they started a fight against Halloween and call on young people to drown pumpkins in the river. A radical solution to eradicating the Western devil was devised by a member of United Russia Vyacheslav Wagner. After all, he said, Russia already has enough of its own holidays. "The pumpkin will rot as usual, the fish will eat it. In return, we give him a ticket to the theater. This is exactly the Russian culture. There is a Russian spirit here, it smells like Russia," Wagner said.