CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA.
AN ATHEIST FESTIVAL. By Tfclegraph—Press Association—Copyright “ Times ” Service. (Received Dcember 10, 3.0.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 8. The Riga correspondent of the “ Times ” says that Russia has decided to celebrate Christmas by the propagation of Atheism. The Soviet authorities liav© instructed all branches of the League of Communist Youth to limit the Christmas festivities to scientific Atheistic propaganda, to avoid open-air masquerades, and to confine their efforts to instilling into the minds of working youths a materialistic outlook. Trade union organisations have been ordered to arrange and finance the festivities, to which they must attract as many youths and maidens and children as possible. Tho Georgian {soviet Government has abolished the Christmas vacations in the schools, and substituted other dates coinciding with the Bolshevik revolutionary festivals.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17219, 10 December 1923, Page 7
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