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...League of the Militant Godless was organized. Headed by the late Emelyan Yaroslavsky (TIME, Dec. 13), the encomiast of Stalin, the Godless numbered more than 5,500.000 members at their heyday. They published two magazines, Bezbozhnik (The Godless) and Anti-religioznik (The Anti-religionist). In their lettuce days, the Godless organized anti-religious parades with floats burlesquing religious subjects such as the Immaculate Conception. These capers disgusted many Russians, made bad publicity abroad, and were finally called off. Public debates between priests and the Godless were also tried, also had to be called off. The priests held their...
Just about the world's crudest propaganda sheet is the monthly Bezbozhnik ("The Godless"), of Russia's League of the Militant Godless. While a pretense of religious freedom is maintained in Russia, the League carries on anti-religious activity probably abetted by the Secret Police and Bezbozhnik serves as a pep sheet for Atheists. Last week it printed an account of what has been happening to priests and their flocks in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland...
...propagandist stunt which is not peculiar to the dictator nations but has been used by U. S. bigots (with "ex-monks," "escaped nuns," etc.)-would benefit not only Stalin but the discredited Russian Godless. So last week Metropolitan Nikolas' renunciation of "religious lies" appeared in the atheist journal, Bezbozhnik. He declared that he had begun to feel that his church duties were burdensome, and finally discontinued them entirely. "For me," wrote the Metropolitan, "the face of the priesthood has been unmasked." Thereupon Nikolas proceeded to particularize, naming prelates by name and accusing them of crimes which, point by point...
...Lenin nicknamed him Stalin ("Steel") and he thereupon dropped his true surname Dzhugashvili. -Since the old Orthodox clergy imparted to their village flocks faith in the miraculous nature of lightning, the editors of Bezbozhnik have had to begin their refutation of religion with such elementals as attempts to demonstrate that lightning is merely an electrical phenomenon and not an indication that the Creator is vexed...
...Karl Marx The Soyuz Bezbozhnikoy (Union of the Godless) the principal society for the propagation of atheism, boasts 114,000 members, issues a weekly Bezbozhnik- (The Godless). Generally the old peasantry remain rooted in their faith. Their children are growing up with a doubtful and questioning attitude toward religion...
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