NO CHRISTMAS DAY
IRRELIGION CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA 2,000 CHURCHES CLOSED LONDON, Thursday. . The Moscow correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian” reports that there were no external signs of Christmas celebrations. The prohibition of the sale of Christmas trees and decorations was strictly enforced. Christmas Day was declared a day on which the workers should contribute their wages to a special fund for the industrialisation of Russia. Antireligious propaganda was strenuously disseminated. There is an energetic campaign in progress to melt down church bells. The Atheists’ Union calculated that 333,000 tons of bell metal is available. The newspapers state that 2,000 churches have been closed since the revolution, and the movement is being accelerated.
All the theatre managers have been instructed to stage anti-religious plays, including the dramatisation of Sinclair Lewis’s novel “Elmer Gantry.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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132NO CHRISTMAS DAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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