RUSSIAN ATHEISTS.
£000 Ikons Burnt In Public Ceremony. STALIN'S MESSAGE. {Keceived IiSD a.m.) MOSCOW, December'l,o. The entire population of Gorlovka witnessed a public anti-religious ceremony of the burning of 4000 Ikons. Stalin sent the following message: "Today fell the priestly fortress of darkness and chicanery." Five churches at Serukhova have been converted into grain stores in the furtherance of the Christmastide quickening of atheist propaganda.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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