RUSSIA & RELIGION
A MISSIONARY’S CLAIM. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 12. Miss Natalie Grushenkova, a member of the Russian Missionary Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was an assistant professor at. the Leningrad University until she went to London University. While in London, she became a Christian. She is now touring the world, and helping other exiled Russians. She said that on her tour she was watched by Soviet agents, who insinuated that the Society was more than religious in its aims. When in Australia, the Communistic element tried to interrupt her addresses. The visitor said that there was a great religious revival welling up in Russia. The people could not and would not do without religions. She said that the peasants were far from satisfied with the' communal farming system. There was actual famine in Russia now, and at present a conference in Geneva was trying to devise a way of helping Russians who were starving. These facts the Soviet would like to suppress. The Soviet did not want war now, as it was not ready, and it feared a revolution in case of war.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 7
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