An Uncensored Account of Religion in Russia from Lenin to Khrushchev, Leopold L. Braun, 1958

xt day the piece of news. It consi: ment made by S. A. of religious denominat some of these being named Soviet Government lool e American Lend-Lease countries. No soone don than he was r i - u “Living Church” 1 1944, does not m the Red Church, € encouraged defectio. direct opposition to | the Moscow Patriarch needed it (in 1943), and rule” has never bee new name for the old Whereas the czarist eral who openly supe ing in theory to be comp now have two such Procu sively for the Orthodox rel non-Orthodox faiths. knowing that the headaı directs the Commission fairs, are established i in How New Is the Soviet Rel Ivan V. Polyansky, n most emphatic ass existed in the seve Orthodox Reli in the existing sian Orthodo IX | Lurch is given it, ‘The a the events that hay world have amp ly — Government's hostile From time to tim kaya Pravda have E While these attacks we church dignitaries by nat World War IL thepa Soviet campaigns ag many cities of the Sov et used as antireligious mus time of Hitler's “crusa hed but still grotesquesag The League of Militan since World War IL, has operates more subtly un Union Society for the D Knowledge. Under this attack religion, not only i One of these “new lo Expense accuses the GB strument of Wall oe Protestant and ally” demonstr ted SCurantism.” Unquestionably ly Government's 2 + kind described h > y” Y encyclical on Ath i to the immense trag The Holy Father call which this conspiracy i munism. It is indeed anyone explain the fact eager to publish daily h corners of the globe, ha cumulated horrors of Co To quote from Pius XI on the evils of Communis to shortsighted political px occult forces which for a for the overthrow of th It is the Lord Himse dren of this world...a the children of light” I we bear this divinely jf important but sad illust neo-religious el Hitler's “crusade } organized for E help of atheistic even before the ` apparently innocuo in Toronto, Canada it his solemn prof length every single exception of this wri officiating in the en question, by the na soon cabling thousan: on these interviews. 1] interlocutors was in at that time showe ordinary solicitude. Y excesses during the r with the masses risi 1 OPpression? Was there No, that was wild ta People.” Were ch L Where in Soviet F l to do was to come known as the “PE Molotov, Malenkox ected “proof” of this nominal head only of the way out, to be expulsion from th colleagues had warn may have disagreed one mind in attacki which all Party mem What Kalinin sai “error” by the State del God is allowed to rei in dictatorial Soviet Si false statements to an Am : he told them: “The law citizen has the right to pre 4 matter pertaining to í C sky issued a statement effect that the State ega carefully omitting at th it methods employed for * "se a handy Soviet 1} and all other pronoun mmunist lea