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Red-Tie Yuri TRAGEDY OF THE

Had No Skis RUSSIAN

OKI?

THE

FROM

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David Budding, 12, speaking Soviet ki chum for the boys, suld. "I don't see why parents had to make such

Yuri Manasry a fas We are the ones getting culion of the opened his blue eyes wide hat, not them.

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be the punishment now"

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interpreter: "I have not for an som

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his loyalty when prn- perly asked will be discharged mer conditions other than Honourable.**

con- everyone is fused -

especially the State Department. which wp-

The

CHURCH

In every church which continued to function called

Do not know whether It is possible to ald anything to the dozens of volumes which have been written about the per-

Russian This is the nom-de-plume of the writer of this article, ax-Soviet citizen who lived on the outskirts of Church, its clergy, religious an orders and bellevers. But, Leningrad. Sho worked in Leningrad itself where the during the 32 years I spent held an executive position in the office of a Government in a large city like Lenin- Department. grad this tragedy of the Church unfolded as authen- tically as if it were a pano- rama.

Smirnova By Anna

I remember, us

the

still

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110-

of

was

"church committee 20" (1.e. 20 parishioners) elected. This committee kept and purchase account of the

conducted the sale of candles, administrative affairs of the church and carried moral re- sponsibility as it were for the political content of the sermons,

or

themselves.

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During World War I she was ovacuated from

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of the Leningrad and obtained a position with the management of a collective farm in the Kirov district. After the War "church committee of 20" wern

with cho worked as a civilian for the Soviet Occupation Forces obliged to register in Austria.

Church Desk of the She has been living in the West since the end if they of 1949.

when Party Committee, happened yesterday, the

greased pressure on religion coarse music-hall jokes of

began to be imposed they were work the Stakhanov on the church to the church exlied the participants in the anti- us

else perished McCarthy background:

religious demonstrations of shift.”

departinent of the Kuibyshev NKVD cellars, us did the clergy At one his Red-hunting hear.

was district where the church Ings ne usked

Major Irving the first now far-off years

located (Nevsky Prospekt), ↑ Yoru's visit in the Peress if he was a Communist.

of the

Revolution, the The anti-religious lam-sking for it to be spared bo- belief that he wanted to Peress refused to answer,

"League of the Godless" poons of Yaroslavsky, Pre- cause of the memories it held Cova a skiing contest.

Soun

Peress

(later

"League of sident of the "League of for him: "I was baptised in it, After

discharged, Me Militant Godless") and the the Militant Godless," were I was married in

the Carthy told

that ormy

first bands of Komsomols, still enjoying great popu- funeral shall be held in it." In

In 1926 and 1927 the confused press

August, 1940, :frotala #se court-mar-

with their gutter slogans, larity at that time. At Professor's death,

palen against the Church reach- about Yuri. They forgot unflect. Flut by then it was

ed its climax. Of the "Tik- general workers' meetings was blown up. to meet him.

honovskaya" churches only one manifestos were read con-

continued to be used for ser- the The Church of St John taining requests and

ex- Bapilst

Re Church of the the vices on the Ligovka stili

until

last this hortations to close this or

demption, stands "lopped off," to use the

its that church situated in Д

demolishers, magilent building, with expression of the

mosaic walls by Italian masters, were so massive and the church was also closed. Later it was were smashed and burnt;

ns A store- so firmly built that the explo- used temporarily were melted sives used were ineffective.

house for potatoes. (I W09 "Let's get rid of all the church bella

still closed in 1948). down and church buildings blown up by dynamite,

nt

Even the Soviet officials honourably

UNO were

of the U.S. Skl Association,

War

ino late.

MERICANS

abou!

ole

hearing arc

of Britab's

such as:

"Down with the monks, "Down with the priests,

It and my

soon after the the church

"We are young Kom- working-class suburb. Ikona the reason being that the walls

somols,

gods."

Was

Blown Up

it

cam-

143

Draconian Apart from these

still ro- Those clergy who measures, churches were often obliged to close down because mained at large were moved al- of the of the crushing taxes imposed most to the outskirts

to elty

Church of The (the on them. These amounted To

and later and thousands of rubles,

Archangel Michael), outside the city to a tiny church at Leoye,

church expenses, such as heat-

457

finished its existence.

Yuri (wearing bright red tie, bright blue shirt) and interpreter Gregori Kukush-Younger authors -Anthes Ben- kin fred tie and RED shirt) nett, aged it. had wait.

Her story of two pigs, "Lady They exchanged Rus Porks," adorned with 124 of her own drawings, is on the book- stan cigarette for Ameri- stalls. can. Yuri tensk

* puif.

An author's note lo her own choker, and saiti: "I don't

handwriting on a pink-and- The word Komsomol at smoke. I carry them to white cover says: "I thought that time

indis- Was give away.

of this in a chalet on Exmoor

tinguishable from the word Then Soviet ear arrived and where two pigs visited us every

It could "atheist".

not whisked tiem

cup day." She was then aged ten, and the

have been otherwise, since BWOY The run li tự c031-

Factories used to take ing, lighting, choir and clergy's worden

where the "white" church meninrate the fath anniversary wine the juke-box in a bar membership of the "League in turns on Saturdays to salary, had to be borne by the

themselves played the theme song of the Godless"

in- clear away the rubble, At congregation, from "Dragnet," a crime show

as church mice. After separable and obligatory first the sites were

over. Foor Dors of New York's Calliedral on

As a compromise an official gunman rubbed

against these burdens struggling for all Komsomola. D Chair School are put out- Fortunato Truzzolino

the 50- started, and his

grown with grass and then many churches ere forced to church was

were

but called "Sergievskaya," close. This small gardens were laid out. because headmaster Darby Betis customers of 175 dollars.

was the case with

of as the did not win the support such famous cathedrals cancelled his rufe to spank them It was the gunman who put

adherents of the for bad behaviour. Parents had the coin in the juke-box

If there was no factory Isaklevsky and the Kazansky genuine

"white" churc not to men- dreadful

and only the objected.

start the record....

church,

(on the Nevsky), i.e. near the

and unem tion others; the latter is now a no workers to

ployment (if one can use the museum. Payment of a regular there were

word) of the clergy compelled subscription to

whom such requests could the

the majority of them to knock "Lengte" was also obliga- be made, the church

at the doors of the "Se

"Sergiove simply blown up on

kaya," since it was impossible lory.

pretext that it was pre-

for them to obtain work in other professione members free flow of The rapid expansion of venting the

was what the "League" was assisted traffic. by recruiting factory happened to the Pokrova so-called "Inventories" taken at footing as declasse elements, workers, since a largo per Church, in the former Sen- the beginning of 1920's, During The Soviet

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