Word: besbozhnik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting the women's arrest as "coin-hoarders," famed Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") ominously stated last week that twelve priests have been arrested for coin-hoarding in recent months, that twelve other persons have been shot...
...Moscow the counter-religious magazine Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") faced Easter Sunday last week with a fat register full of boys' and girls' names...
Each signer was rewarded by Besbozhnik with a red scarf if a girl, with a red necktie...
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