RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS BURNED IN PUBLIC.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 11, 1150 a.m MOSCOW, December 10. The entire population or Gorlovka witness a public anti-religi-ous ceremony of the burning of four thousand Ikons. Stalin sent the following message : “To-day fell the 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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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18941, 11 December 1929, Page 1
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