Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
Among legally registered societies, according to Pravda (Truth), official newspaper of the Communist Party, are the 30,000 religious communities in the U.S.S.R. which have obtained registration as containing more than the minimum required number of 20 parishioners each. To read in Pravda that there are thus, at the very least, 600,000 registered* and actively religious Soviet citizens was one of the first news shocks set off by the new Constitution. It brought with it the further shock that apparently the Constitution entitled these religious groups to nominate candidates for the Supreme Soviet...
...worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State and he glibly cites from the works of Marx and Lenin passages which suit his purposes. Indeed Soviet newsorgans have been complaining that often the village priest seems able to confound the village Communist leader by superior erudition in the works of Stalin himself, greater familiarity with the lengthy Party texts...
...miners using timber, nails and bricks allotted them by the State to build homes, to build their village a church instead. Ten collective farms in the Dubovka region were reported to consist entirely of members of the Molokani sect. At Torzhok a majority of girls belonging to the Young Communists also belong to the Church. Most scandalous and alarming of all from the Communist point of view: the Soviet press has been reporting that in public baths Red Army soldiers are frequently seen with small Orthodox crosses hung by a string around their necks...
...week to cramp the electioneering style of the Russian clergy. It appeared from stories in the Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which...