RELIGION IN RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 8

RELIGION IN RUSSIA

EVIDENCES OF A REVIVAL MISSIONARY VISITS DOMINION. I Piet United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 12. Miss Natalie Grushenkoya, a member of the Russian Missionary: Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was assistant professor at Leningrad University until she went to the London University. While in London she became a, Christian. She is now touring the world, helping other exiled Russians. She said that on her tour site 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,- dc without religion; sh« said. : T,_•.■ ' • 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 the 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 the event of war.