Rock versus religion
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Kremlin is going to try decadent rock music arid films as an antidote to the opiate of the masses — religion. Soviet television will feature foreign rock and pop music late tonight to compete with traditional orthodox Easter Saturday church rites. Moscow newspapers have announced a special programme of popular foreign films to be shown at
27 Moscow theatres tonight. Television schedules published yesterday listed a rock-and-pop music show featuring Cliff Richard, of Britain, and popular singers and bands from Italy, Holland, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Orthodox churches in the Soviet Union have been packed to capacity in recent years for Easter and Christmas Eve midnight services.
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Press, 9 April 1977, Page 8
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