(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anatole Lunatcharsky, Soviet Education Commissar, took the Bible as his text in an address he delivered at the Moscow celebration of Tolstoy’s 100th birth anniversary.
The leader of the Soviet educational policy compared Tolstoy’s ideals to those of the Bible and asserted that just as Tolstoy championed the rights of the peasantry against capitalism, “the Bible was the result of peasantry’s fight against the bourgeois.” The Bible, he added, was ever a moral weapon in the hands of protestants again “immoral capitalism.”
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