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Originally Posted by plsureking
where are you, Zimbabwe? i know you aren't talking about Thailand. 
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Following the old Orthodox calendar, Russia along with a few other countries, have two sets of Christmas and New Years. So when I am in the States, which is typically in November to January, and there is a gathering of family and friends, we are "celebrating" everything: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christian/Catholic Christmas, New Years, Orthodox Christmas, Orthodox New Year.
And Eastern Europe and Russia shuts down. I remember in Slovakia, literally there are a couple of days in between all the holiday closures, when a place like the supermarket would be open. There was a mad rush of thousands of people running around angry, trying to fill up their fridgerators with food and drink.