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...Moscow they were met by representatives of Minister for Religious Affairs G. G. Karpov; a limousine whisked them straight to the Hotel Savoy (around the corner from the recently reconditioned Lyubyanka-headquarters of the Secret Police...
...Religious Affairs last month. Last week in a pastel-green-walled suite, still smelling of paint and plaster, thick-lipped, bespectacled Ivan Vassilyvich Poliansky was busy considering and passing on the requests of all Soviet churches except the Russian Orthodox.* At work on the floor below was Georgi Gregorievich Karpov, chief liaison agent between the government and the Orthodox Church...
...Says Karpov: "Priests may go to their parishioners and may engage in proselytizing work either in church or outside without any restriction except those placed upon any orderly citizen of the U.S.S.R. . . . They may officiate in private homes if they so desire, may perform baptismal, marriage and funeral services in or outside churches...
Suddenly into Inokovka rode three officials of the Soviet circuit court: Tovarisha (Comrades) Simokin, Karpov, Diubin. Humbly the peasants begged not to be punished for falling short of their sparrow quota. Good fellows, the circuit court officials joined with enthusiasm in the sparrow hunt. Fearing, however, that the district Soviet authorities at Yelan might be harder-hearted, the peasants, shrewd, sent a very pretty girl, Comrade Emelianova, to intercede with the district boss, Comrade Vorobiev...