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Word: gorkovskaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Metropolitan Orgies? | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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