Word: bezbozhnik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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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