SOVIET ANGRY
FAILURE OF CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN STEPS TO OVERTHROW. RELIGION London, January 9. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Soviet is angry at the failure of its anti-religious Christmas campaign The Komsomoltsi, the Russian name of the Young Communist League, has circularised branches throughout Russia complaining that not only the peasantry but considerable masses ot workmen still, insist on observing Christmas on January 6, according to the old-style calendar, which the Soviet abolished. It enjoins more energetic steps in thwarting the religious enemy, .which, is “polluting the minds and gaining influence over Soviet citizens.” It concludes: “This is the real danger in the towns and worse in the countryside of new religious sects springing up and encouraging . parents to teach children good manners, politeness, and abstain from bad language. The Komsomoltsi must end this.”—"The Times.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 87, 11 January 1928, Page 8
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