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...only tolerated party). ... Its effect was that the Russian Communist Party, aiming at the complete abolition of priesthood, made itself a priesthood. To eliminate orthodoxy, it set up the most intolerant orthodoxy in,the world. To get id of the religious orders, it instituted the League of the Godless, with medals for its emblems . . . you may see them oftener in Russia than scapulars in Ireland...
...Church Club's dinner last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he said: "There is an undoubted revival of religion [in Russia], Complete freedom of worship within their churches is granted to all religions. Anti-God propaganda has been suspended, godless museums are closed, and respect for religion is encouraged. The Orthodox Church has greater freedom than it ever had under the Tsars. The churches are crowded, though many are still closed or secularized. The change in the Soviet attitude toward religion is due to the recognition that religion cannot be eradicated, that a large proportion...
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet schools marked their pupils excellent, good, medium, bad or very bad. Word had reached the U.S. last week that Joseph Stalin's Government has discarded this marking system along with coeducation, the Godless society and the Internationale. The new marks are 5 (for excellent), 4, 3, 2 or i. This is the system used under the late Czars...
...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...
Undeceiving Census. Then (in 1937) the Soviet Government took a census. One question asked about religious faith. When the returns were in, the authorities took one look, gasped, ordered most of the census bureau liquidated as Trotskyists. The census is believed (since the figures were admitted by Godless Headman Yaroslavsky) to have shown that, after 20 years of intensive persecution of the Church, one-third of Russia's city population and two-thirds of Russia's peasants were still Christians, and would not conceal the fact from the official census takers...