FUNDS FOR TANKS
Gifts By Russian Priests
LONDON, January 5.
Conveying New Year’s blessings to M. Stalin, the acting-Patriarch, Sergei, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, announced that he had requested the Church to raise funds to build a tank column, which would be named St. Dimitri Donskoi. He added: “The Patriarchate of Moscow Cathedral has already contributed 500,000 roubles for victory against the black forces of Fascism.”
M. Stalin, accepting the gift, asked the Patriarch to convey his greetings and the Red Army’s gratitude to the Ruslan Orthodox clergy and communicants.
The British Press correspondent at Moscow says that individual priests had earlier given several hundred thousand roubles from their own savings for the same purpose. This action follows a widespread campaign initiated on collective farms to give their savings to the Red Army for the construction of planes and tanks. Several hundred million roubles have already been raised.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 3
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150FUNDS FOR TANKS Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 3
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