DISSATISFACTION IN RUSSIA

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 5

DISSATISFACTION IN RUSSIA

FAMINE AND LACK OF RELIGION.

FORMER PROFESSOR IN DOMINION.

By Telegraph—Press .Association. Auckland, Sept. 12.

Miss Natalie Grushenkova, a member of the Russian Missionary Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was an as? sistant professor at Leningrad University until she went to London University. While at London she became a Christian. She is now touring the world helping other exiled Russians. She 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 Communist element tried to interrupt her addresses.

There was a great religious revival welling up in Russia, she said. The people could not and would not do without religion. The peasants were far from satisfied with the communal farming system. There was actual famine in Russia now, and at the present a conference at 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 case of war.