The Archive · 1930

SOVIET ANTI-CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

Riga, Jan. 10, According to the Soviet news: papers, 30,000 adults and 10,000) children participated in an anti-Christmas demonstration at Moscow which Russia Xmas, The demonstrators formed a. rear procession, headed by lorries carrying tableaux showing priests {in vestments engaged in buffoonery, prominent foreign politicians and others. Still more lorries carried Toad of ikons, clerical garments and other religious objects.

Crowds danced around a huge Christmas tree decorated effigies of Mr. Ramsay MucDonald, the British Premier, M. Bri the French Foreign "Minister, President von Hindenburg, the President of Germany, and Marshal Pilsudski, the Dictator of. Poland, as well as of other "notorious drunkards, priests and bureau-rats." These effigies were" subsequently burned.

Similar demonstrations took place inthe chief provincial towns—Reater.

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