SOVIET DENIES CRUELTY TALES.
SAYS CHURCHES CARRY ON WITHOUT TROUBLE. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Cop3 r right.) (Received February 11, 8.35 a.m.) MOSCOW, February 10. A high official of the Soviet Government has issued a statement through the Tass Agency repudiating the “incredible tales” of religious martyrdom. He states: “Remembering the Church’s oppressive rule under the Czar, the Soviet does not conceal its dislike lor religion, but we fight religion by education and propaganda, not by the methods of the mediaeval Inquisition. “Tens of thousands of churches of all denominations are functioning in the Union of Soviet Republics. Priests re- • training from counter-revolutionary ? activities are allowed to conduct serI vices unmolested.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 1
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