RUSSIAN CONDITIONS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 232, 13 September 1934, Page 9

RUSSIAN CONDITIONS

Great Religious Revival <Bv Telegraph-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. Miss Natalie Grusbenkova, a member of the Russian Missionary Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was an assistant professor at Leningrad University until she went to London University. While in London she bci enine a Christian. She is now touring the world helping other exiled Russians Miss Grushenkova 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 religion. She said that peasants were far from satisfied with tho 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 fads the Soviet would like to suppress. The Soviet, she said, did not want war now, as it was not ready, and it feared 1 a revolution in case of war.