Why do former Soviets who are supposedly Jewish have Xmas trees?

[ChabadKahanist]

Why do former Soviets who are supposedly Jewish have Xmas trees or as they call them yolka? You would think living in Israel they would give that up!!!

[zeraisraelkahanist]

It's not really a Xmas tree but it's actually for new years, for people not in the know Christmas was banned as was every other religious holiday so a member of the soviet government put New years as a public holiday and the people who were forced out of Christianity then put up a new years tree, if you ask me why Jews put them up I have no clue.