I fully understand that I am trying to engage into a 30 y.o discussion now,
but the Russia section in calendars file repeats quite widespread myths
about Eternal Calendar with 30th February.

I used to believe in that myself, given quite a little information on the
internet about the issue. Even Wikipedia spread this myth back in the day.
Even the Russian version of Wikipedia spreaded the myth:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F&oldid=4065976

Nowadays, Wikipedia is more clean about the issue, providing some source
links:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

The truth is:
  - Gregorian calendar was continuously used during the mentioned time
  - 30th February in USSR is an absolute myth (to be more clear, this is a
declined proposal of a new calendar)
  - Mentioned 5-day weeks and 6-day weeks were in fact an attempt to
relabel weekdays (Monday-Sunday)
   - Relabeling was done in a way, not conflicting with traditional
weekdays (they used words like "third day of six-week day" or colors).
Traditional names were used in parallel

I could not say, the calendar file does not say the truth (after all, it
raises doubts in a second quoted message), and all this information is
indeed very interesting from a historical point of view, but does not seem
relevant to Calendrical Issues. In fact 100 years later no one (unless
someone is specifically interested in these weird weekdays) cares if 12th
of December of 1937 was "sixth day of six-day week", because it was Sunday
at the same time. I'd suggest removing the whole Russia section from this
file (you can keep the small note about switching from Julia to Gregorian
calendar in 1918), since for the purpose of it it raises nothing but
confusion.

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