"Gradual Suffocation."
Dr. Rushbrooke said that while it was true thousands of churches were still open in Russia, many had been closed and more were being closed each year. So also were synagogues and mosques. Owing to the heavy and arbitrary taxation imposed on preachers, the exclusion of their children from the higher schools, repeated imprisonment without any charges being laid, there was not a preacher in Russia to-day who exercised any influence. In their war upon religion the Bolsheviks acted upon a dictum of Karl Marx, "Religion is the opium of the people." Because tortures, killings and other horrors had been abolished many people believed that the campaign against religion had ceased, but it had not, and was being conducted cunningly and dangerously, and religion was gradually being suftocated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 252, 24 October 1932, Page 12
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