WAR ON RELIGION
4,000 IMAGES BURNED IN RUSSIAN TOWN CHURCHES BECOME STORES Reed. 11 a.m. MOSCOW, Tuesday. Che entire population of Gorlovka witnessed a public anti-religious ceremony o£ the burning cf 4,000 ikons. M. Stalin sent the following message:—“Today fell a priestly fortress of darkness and chicanery.” Five churches at Serukhova have been converted into grain stores, in furtherance of the Christmastide quickening of atheist propaganda.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 843, 11 December 1929, Page 9
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66WAR ON RELIGION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 843, 11 December 1929, Page 9
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