Word: yaroslavl
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Meanwhile last week the general subject of Soviet church-going was angrily aired at a Communist gathering in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. Speakers cited Soviet statistics to prove that still regular churchgoers in Russia today are: 12% of young peasant women and 1% of young peasant men; 26% of middle-aged peasant women and 3% of their men; 48% of elderly peasant women and 14% of their men. Because of the time these people "waste" in church, declared Communist zealots at Yaroslavl, the Soviet harvest for 1936 was 35% less than it would have been if they had worked during...