SOVIET CALENDAR
NEW NAMES TO MONTHS RELIGIOUS DESIGNATIONS ERASED. M. Lunatcharskl, the Soviet Government’s Commissar of ’Worship, is arranging for tho introduction of a now calendar for all the Soviet republics. It is quite out of tho question, he declares, for the new Communistic State to tolerate a calendar marked with church holidays and festivals and with religious designations for the days. Of the names of tho months, _ only those of February and October will he retained, because of their revolutionary associations. The others will be changed for names directly suggestive of the revolution. Thus January is renamed for Lenin, March for Stalin, and so on. As for the days of the week, Sunday Till Ipmcerorth be known as Lenin Day, Monday as Soviet Day, Tuesday as Revolution Day, etc. The weekly day of rest will no longer by Sunday or Lenin Day, hut Saturday, a circumstance which is not explained.
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Evening Star, Issue 19618, 26 July 1927, Page 5
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151SOVIET CALENDAR Evening Star, Issue 19618, 26 July 1927, Page 5
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