PROPAGANDA AGAINST RELIGION
ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA NO SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. December 27, 8.55 p.m.) London, December 26. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Moscow correspondent reports that there were no external signs of Christmas celebrations. The prohibition on the sale of Christmas trees and decorations was strictly enforced. Christmas was declared a day on which the workers should contribute their wages to a special fund for the industrialisation of Russia, and anti-religious propaganda was strenuously disseminated. An energetic campaign is in progress to melt down church bells, the Atheists’ Union calculating that 333,000 tons of bell metal are available. The Press states that two thousand churches have been closed since the revolution, and the movement is being accelerated. All the theatres are instructed to stage anti-religious plays, including the dramatisation of Sinclair Lewis’s novel “Elmer Gantry.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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