New Britain herald., 1930-03-12
Atheistic Groups In Russia Plan Anti-Religious Demonstration As
 Reply to Christian Intervention
Stalin Reproves Those Who sA Use Force in Collectiyi- re.
 zation-Papers Ridicule / Roman POntiff.


 approach of Easter and Catholic and Protestant days of ''intercessorv ,s prayer on behalf of Christian Rus -sians," Soviet atheist officials are busly formulating an intensified aH- ,saut upon God and religion. Ignoring the world outcly against communists for their atii
 tudc toward the church. which they say is only a cloak for an economic blockade against the Soviet Union, | these leaders yesterday issued ih
 structions to members of the league of communist youths numbering 2, <5GO, 900 members to have "special shock brigades and groups of light cavalry during Easter week, lead the anti-God movement and invcst
 gate the schools, universities and clubs to sec how the anti-religious t~ education of the young is being car ried out.
 Members are directed 10 organize mock religious carnivals, atheistlc meetings, torchlight processions ana lectures, and also to fight for eN- termination of the Kulak, the com
  { Russia and fulfilment of the five year industrialization plan.
 Stalin Urges Less Force
 Hardening undoubtedly to Stalin'5 {. recent admonltion to go easier with the peasants in enforcing the gov ernments rural policies, the orders to anti-religious propagandlstS hot lln demonstrations by the masses should be spontaneous, voluntary and provoked by force or formal administrative orders.
 Atheistic workers are called upon 10 enlist the aid of the scientific and technical authorities in empha- sizing materialistic creation Of the . world and life.
 On Easter day huge bonfircs Of
 icons will be made in all large cities and towns arornd which unbelievcTs will celebrate the "eXtinction of religion"
 Dealing with it's newly prepared five-year anti-God plan, the society of militant atheists, embracing near .ly 5000, 900 members. issued a manifesto declaring that means must be found for cXterminating re- lisious teachings aniong families and eliminating from the schools teach CTS who believe in God so that in
 the end of the five-ycar plan there
 will be no such thing as religion in Soviet schools.
 t' "In answer 10 foreign agitation
 against us," says the "Godlcss One
 which is the official organ of the so-
 c:cty 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 Fc.ty thousand rubl s To have already been collected for this purpose"
 In it's anti Easter program, which it says will be carried out not only Ia among Christians, Jews and Mes
 l.ms but among all other religious faiths in the Soviet Union, the So- cicty of militant atheists says; By intensifying the struggle aganst re- K ligion, we will hasten the collectvial ton of peasant farms By llqulddt- ing the kulak (rich peasants) as q class We will quicken the fall of his chief support which is religion. We will convert the state and collective farms into great centers of atheism" Paper Becomes Daily Further to expand the campaign against the church, the "Godless One" announces it will change frorl a weekly to daily publication with a circulation of 1,5o0,o0o.
 Under the caption: "The Holy Father in Historic Light" the Pray da, official organ of the communist party, prints d cartoon showing q |A figure representing the Pope being +encircled by flames from the hang ing bodies of religious martyrs burn ed at the stake for herctical be- liefs.
 Writing under the heading; "A Blow to Capitilstic Civlzatlon' tic Izvcstia, which is the official organ of the government, Characteriz9s present assaults abroad on the gov ernment for it's attitude toward re- ligion as prelude to renewal against the Soviet of the economic | blockade of 1919 and the armed ln- | tervcntion of that time,
 The present agitation uniting Eu. rope against thc Soviet Union, say Tzvestia, is based only upon the jealousy and fear of the imperiallstlc powers that the Bolshcvists will succeed in fulfilling their fivc-year industralization plan and thus pe- : come a menace 10 the captallstI1 world.
 Quotes Engineer Quoting a recent statement credit: ct to Leslie Urquhart in the Ne"
 York Engineering and Mining Jour-
 nal that Successful completion by
 the Soviet of its five-year plan Will
 destroy, or at any rate, deal a ter rife blow to entire civilizatlon,' la-
 yestia says it is clear the foreign
 powers are in deadly fear Of tht
 Soyiets economic successes ans those powers are attempting now tc paralyze the Soviet export trade.
 The paper cites alleged efforts IT New York to undermine AmtorS the Soviet trading corporation whlcI
 it says, is charged with importing
 the Holy Scriptures from Russia for
 sale in the United States and with
 acting as the intermediary of the communist international for the
 spread of revolutionary propaganda
 It also refers to alleged attempts
 bv Sweden, Belgium, Germany {. France and other countries to place
 an embargo on Soviet matches, oil
 timber, flax and other products al
 nj which Izvestia interprets as the