RELIGION IN RUSSIA
“ ANTI-GOD SOCIETY.”At a plenary sitting of the Committee of the Communist Party in Moscow a special report on the anti-religious situation in town and country was considered (says ‘ The Times’s’ Riga correspondent). Tho official spokesman, Barkanoffi, stated that the anti-religious organisations were unquestionably suffering discomfiture and a sort of religious revival had occurred among tho masses. Various kinds of religious organisations and sects had come into being, and their influence had penetrated into the factories and even into tho barracks of tho Red Array. This revival was particularly apparent at Easter, -when “the churches were flooded by a sea of light and artists from the Grand Theatre, Aloscow, sang in them.” Barkanoffi complained that the 29,000 members of the “ Anti-God Society ” had proved to be unable to stem the religions tide. This society must, therefore, bo reorganised and agitators specially trained on a mass scale to meet the now “ menace,” particular attention being devoted to propaganda among women, children, and adolescents.
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Evening Star, Issue 19640, 20 August 1927, Page 18
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