The anti-Soviet crusade abroad will only strengthen the anti-religious movement in Russia, the official Communist “Pravda” assures the enemies of the Soviet, in commenting on the Jewish demonstrations in New York, Warsaw and Jerusalem.
The Warsaw and Jerusalem rabbis the “Pravda” says, proclaimed a fast “because the Jewish manufacturers, Poznansky and Sheibler, want to get rich on military orders but the Jewish workers who as unemployed fast several days each week anyhow will understand that the only remedy against their starvation is to energetically help the Soviet.”
Many great demonstrations and carnivals were held today throughout Russia to counteract the religious demonstration abroad. At Minsk, Poltava, Zhmerinka, Kharkov, Vinnitz, Belozerkov and other cities the foreign crusade is being answered by the collection of candlesticks, praying shawls, phylacteries, gold rings and samovars for the industrialization fund. In the colony of Lekkert in the Krivorog region, Jewish children collected fully a carload of such articles, it is reported. Members of the Leningrad Academy issued a call to the world not to believe the anti-Soviet propaganda.
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