BURNING OF IKONS
CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA
MESSAGE FROM STALIN
(Received 11th December, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, 10th December.
The entire population of Gorlovka witnessed a public anti-religious ceremony of burning four thousand ikons. Stalin sent the following message today: "Fell the priestly .fortress of darkness and chicanery.''
Five churches at Serukhova have been converted into grain stores in furtherance of the Christmastido quickening of atheist propaganda. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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65BURNING OF IKONS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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