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Football (U.S. soccer) is Russia's biggest sport. But in the winter, skiing ranks No. 1. Editorials in Izvestia and Red Star have urged everyone to learn the sport both for health and military training, and last week the 110 ski runs around Moscow were thronged. Schoolchildren take to it like U.S. moppets to baseball...
...well. Anti-religious museums, usually set up in former churches, were not much more successful. But the main campaign of the Godless was to educate an atheistic younger generation. With the slogans: "a Godless cell in every school" and "no religious schoolteachers," the Godless enrolled two million schoolchildren. But many more than two million did not join the Godless...
...Russia schoolchildren are constantly confronted with posters proclaiming that science will solve the world's ills. Popular science magazines are widely read. Red science is a vast, centrally directed enterprise, with the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences at the top and hundreds of institutes working on assigned problems. No scientific frontier is neglected. Red scientists are well paid, get special vacation privileges, are rewarded with prizes up to 200,000 rubles for outstanding work, rank with writers in prestige...
History. "It is high time that our schoolchildren were told that the Americans licked us at Saratoga in 1777 and at New Orleans...
Denmark. All nine bishops of Danish churches addressed a letter of warning to the Minister of Justice: "Serious tension . . . involves the danger of a violent explosion which would seriously endanger the Danish people. . . ." In many towns schoolchildren formed Churchill Clubs, organized sabotage, filched rifles and other military equipment from German arsenals, distributed illegal newspapers...