RELIGION IN RUSSIA.
SOVIET REPRESSION FAILS
REVIVAL AMONG THE MASSES
At a plenary sitting of the Committee of the Communist Party in Moscow in Juno a special report on tie anti-re-ligious situation in town and country was considered. The officii! spokesman, Barkanoff, stated -.hat the anti lebgious organisations were unquestionably suffering discomfiture and a sort of religious revival had occurred among the masses. Various kinds of religious oi'ganisations and sects had come into being and their influence had penetrated into the factories and even into the barracks of the Red Army. This revival was particularly apparent at Easter, when "the churches were flooded by a sea of light and artists from the Grand Theatre, Moscow, sang in them." Barkanoff complained that the 29,000 members of the "Anti-God Society" had proved to be unable to stem the religious tide. This society must therefore be reorganised and agitators specially trained on a mass scale to meet the new "menace," particular attention being devoted to propaganda among women, children and adolescents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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