SOVIET MOCKERY
BANNING OF CHRISTMAS RIBALD MOB DEMONSTRATES. BONFIRE OF IKONS. (United Press Association --By Electric Telegraph •Copyright.) RIGA, Jan. 11. . Demonstrations against Christmas in the old style, which began, on January G, are claimed by the Soviet Press to have been most successful throughout ■the country. More than 30,000 adults and 10,000 children demonstrated m front of Moscow churches with blasphemous effigies and hooters. Members of a procession carrying tableaux showing mock vestmented priests engaged in buffoonery, concentrated in the square, where ikons were burned in a bonfire.
Crowds danced round a Christmas tree containing effigies of notables, including Mr Ramsay MacDonald, which one by one were consigned to the flames.
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Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 5
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