SOVIET RUSSIA.
OBSERVANCE OF CHRISTMAS, i (Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Jan. 9. A Riga correspondent reports that the Soviet is angry at the failure ot the ainti-retigiogs campaign. Komsoiiiolsi. in the name of the Young Communist League, circularised branches throughout Russia complaining that not only peasantry hut considerable masses of workmen still insist on observing ’Xmas on January Oth, according to the old stylo calendar, which the .•soviet abolished, and enjoins more energetic steps for thwarting the religious enemy, which is polluting the minds and gaining influence over the Soviet’s citizens. The circular concludes: “This is the real danger. Towns are worse than the countryside. New religious sects pringing up encourage parents to teach their children good manners, politeness, and to abstain from had language. Komsonoltsi must end this! ”
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 3
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130SOVIET RUSSIA. Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 3
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