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HIGH COMMUNIST OFFICIAL URGED CLOSING OF CHURCHES MOSCOW, Oct. 26. (Received Oct. 26, at 10.45 p.m.) Because he advocated the immediate closing of churches throughout the Soviet and converting them into social clubs, museums and workshops as the best means of wiping out religion, the highest body of the Communist Party removed from his post Ivan Melentev, editor of a provincial paper, at the same time warning other editors to desist from such proposals, which it declared was a perversion of the Government's policy of combating religion only by education.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23333, 27 October 1937, Page 9
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