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Among legally registered societies, according to Pravda (Truth), official newspaper of the Communist Party, are the 30,000 religious communities in the U.S.S.R. which have obtained registration as containing more than the minimum required number of 20 parishioners each. To read in Pravda that there are thus, at the very least, 600,000 registered* and actively religious Soviet citizens was one of the first news shocks set off by the new Constitution. It brought with it the further shock that apparently the Constitution entitled these religious groups to nominate candidates for the Supreme Soviet...
...this possible? According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the Young Communists, thousands of Soviet officials have been asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
...newsorgans at first published the Chicago speech without comment. It took three days for the Communist hierarchy to make up their minds, but after that Mr. Roosevelt was hailed in Moscow as warmly as in Madrid. "These words mean recognition of the principle of the indivisibility of peace," declared Pravda ("Truth"), official organ of the Communist Party, "that is to say, the very principle for which the Soviet Union so stubbornly and consistently stood in its foreign policy...
Promptly then the big gold star was ripped from the cap of Marshal Tukhachevsky, the four red pips from the collars of his colleagues, and all eight of them fell dead before the acrid volleys of a firing squad. Official Pravda wrote their obituary: "Dogs die like dogs. There is no place for such murderers in the Soviet scheme of things...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...