RUSSIA’S CHRISTMAS
SCIENCE AND ATHEISM (A natralian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, December 8. The Times’s Riga correspondent says: Russia has decided to celebrate Christmas by propagation. The Soviet authorities have instructed all branches of the League of Communist Youth to limit the Christmas festivities to scientific and atheistic propaganda, to avoid open air masquerades, and confine efforts to instilling into the minds of working youths a materialistic outlook. Trade union organisations have been ordered to arrange and finance festivities to which they must attract as many youths and maidens and children as possible. The Georgian Soviet Government has abolished the Christmas vacations in school, and substituted other dates, coinciding with the Bolshevik revolutionary festivals.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1923, Page 2
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