Word: bezbozhnik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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