CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA.

Grey River Argus, 11 January 1928, Page 5

CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA.

COMMUNISTS’ ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN. LONDON, January 9. The Times’s Riga correspondent reports: The Soviet is angry at the failure of the anti-religious Christinas campaign. The Komsomolsti, the name of the Young Communist League, circularised the branches throughout Russia, complaining that not only the peasantry, but considerable masses of workmen, still insist on observing Christmas on January 6, according to the Old Style. The circular calendar, which the Sovist abolished, enjoins more energetic steps in thwarting religious enemy which is polluting the minds and gaining influence over Soviet citizens. The circular concludes: 4 ‘This is a real danger. The towns are worse than the countryside. Now religious sects are springing up encouraging parents to teach children good manners, politeness, and to abstain from bad language. The Komsomolsti must end this.”