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Died. Emelyan Yaroslavsky, 65, highest pontiff of atheism, since 1927 president of Soviet Russia's bezbojniki ("League of the Militant Godless"); in Moscow. The bushy-haired Communist in 1939 figured that 30,000,000 of the Soviet Union's 170,500,000 non-souls were still believers. His hobbies were his children and his garden...
From the heart of a country once called godless came a plea for Christians in the U.S. and Great Britain to pray for Russia's victory. If the plea was strange, the source was stranger: it came from 4,000,000 Russian Baptists. The U.S. knew about its own Baptists, but the U.S. had never heard of the Russian Baptist Church, which claimed some two-thirds as many members as the Northern and Southern Baptists combined. Gasped the Roman Catholic Brooklyn Tablet: "This mass production of baptists . . . verges on the incredible...
Kosmodemyanskaya is one of the many faded footprints of Christianity in Godless Russia...
...Blitzkrieg is godless war; God does not necessarily aid the side with the biggest battalions. Materiel and strategy count for much. The Germans could honestly say last week that they had long had air superiority and now for the first time clearly had tank superiority...
Edicts still forbid the teaching of religion to children under 18, distribution of the Bible or church literature, any form of "religious propaganda." Yet even the League of the Militant Godless admits that millions of Russians (in 1936 it estimated half the total population) still cling to their Greek Orthodox faith...