SOVIET RUSSIA.
SOVIET POWER
'United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) RIGA. Dec. 20.
Despite anti-religious propaganda the “Piavda” estimates that in its twelfth year the Soviet power is 10 to 50 per centum Russian. Children are still under the influence of the church. It adds at least there are fifty thousand establishments occupied by a quartet of a million members of various cults including Maliominodans, Buddists and Jews. It appears sects like Methodist nndßantist are represented by the Greek church. Influence under the Tsar is now gaining ground rapidly in the small bourgeois near Bureaucrats, richer elements peasants find powerful allies in religious sects. The Soviet press declares and probably correctly, that all anti-Soviet forces now realised menace formed united front more dangerous than former landlords, nobles, generals, and Greek church dignitaries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1928, Page 5
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138SOVIET RUSSIA. Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1928, Page 5
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