Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
ATTACK ON GOD
At EASTER, PLAN
OF RED ATHEISTS
Officials in Moscow Direct
Members to Form Mock
Religious CarnivaIS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 11.-With the ap-
proach of Easter and Catholic and
Protestant days of microscopy prayer
on behalf of Christian Russians" Soviet
atheist officials are busily formulating
an intensified assault upon God and
religion.
Ignoring the worldwide outcry
against Communists for their attitude
toward the church, which they say is
only cloak for an economic blockade
against the Soviet union, these lead
ers today issued instructions to MEM
bers of the League of Communist
Youths, numbering 100000 members,
to have special shock brigades and
groups of light cavalry" during Easter
week lead the anti-God movement and
investigate the schools, universities and
clubs to see how the anti-religious edu-
cation of the young is being carried
out.
Mock Religious CarnivaIs.
Members are directed to organize
mock religious carnivals, atheistic meet
ings, torchlight professions and lee
lures and also to fight for extermina-
ton Of the Kulak, the complete COL
lectivization Of all farms in Russia and
fullflment Of the flve-year Industrial
zation plan.
Hardening undoubtedly to Stains
recent adminition to 60 easier with the
peasants in enforcing the governments
rural policies, today'S orders to anti
religious propagandists warns them
that anti-religious demonstrations by
the masses should be spontaneous, vol
untary and not provoked by force or
formal administrative orders.
AthelSt1c workers are called upon to
enlist the aid of the scientific and tech
nical authorities in emphasizing ma
terialiStic creation of the world and life.
On Easter day huge bonfires of tkons
will be made in all large cities and
towns. around which unbelievers will
celebrate the extinction of religion.
Atheists Issue Manifesto.
Dealing with It's newly prepared FIVE
year anti-God plan, the Society of Mill
tant Atheists, embracing nearly 3,0O0,-
900 members. issued a manifesto today
declaring that means must be found for
exterminating religious teachings among
families and eliminating from the schools
teachers who believe in God, so that in
the end Of the five-year plan there will
be no such thing as religion in Soviet
schools.
In answer to foreign agitation
against us" says the Goddess One, which
is the of1cial organ of the Society of
Militant Atheists, I'VE will strengthen
our Red Army. We will build armored
tanks and an entire tractor column
which We shall name the Goddess.
Forty thousand rubles have already been
collected for this purpose"
In its anti-EaSter program, which 1t
says will be carried out not only among
Christians, Jews and Moslems, but
among all other religious faiths in the
Soviet Union, the Society of Militant
Atheists says: by intensifying the
struggle against religion, We will hasten
the collectivization of peasant farms.
BY liquidating the kulak (rich peasants)
as class we will quicken the fal lof his
chief support, which is religion. We will
convert the state and collective farms
into great centers of atheism"
Further to expand the campaign
against the church, the Goddess One
announces 1t will change from a weekly
to daily publication with a circulation
of 100000.
Under the caption, THE Holy Father
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