Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official newspaper of the Communist Party, are the 30,000 religious communities in the U.S.S.R. which have obtained registration as containing more than the minimum required number of 20 parishioners each. To read in Pravda that there are thus, at the very least, 600,000 registered* and actively religious Soviet citizens was one of the first news shocks set off by the new Constitution. It brought with it the further shock that apparently the Constitution entitled these religious groups to nominate candidates for the Supreme Soviet...
...this possible? According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the Young Communists, thousands of Soviet officials have been asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
...Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet...
Membership in the anti-religious Soviet League of Militant Godless has declined, according to official Soviet statistics last week, from over 5,000,000 to under 2,000,000-this being doubtless due in part to a widespread impression that religion in Russia was just about dead, until the election eruption of religious news proved otherwise...
Other briefs in the Soviet press have warned that instances exist of Donets coal miners using timber, nails and bricks allotted them by the State to build homes, to build their village a church instead. Ten collective farms in the Dubovka region were reported to consist entirely of members of the Molokani sect. At Torzhok a majority of girls belonging to the Young Communists also belong to the Church. Most scandalous and alarming of all from the Communist point of view: the Soviet press has been reporting that in public baths Red Army soldiers are frequently seen with small Orthodox...