More Russians find more trick than treat in Halloween.

Russia’s largest region of Yakutia has said that Halloween festivities should not take place in schools, with the education ministry arguing that the holiday could interfere with the goal of preserving the national heritage and traditions.

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Russia has had a mixed attitude to the holiday. Although it has never been banned, the nation has seen repeated attempts to restrict Halloween. In 2013, the then spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin, called it a dangerous holiday which could lead to “sickness, sadness, and despair.” That same year, the education ministry in Omsk Region in Siberia barred schools from marking the festivity, claiming it is a “death cult” that “promotes extremism.”

Not all cultural traditions mix well together. While the Church was right to coopt the timing of a pagan day into All’s Saints Day tradition, the past century, especially the past few decades, have seen a reacquisition by the forces of darkness. As such, Westerners might want to consider following the Russian lead. Renaming it “truck or treat” at the local big box church doesn’t make evil less evil.