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4,000 Priests, Many Rabbis Reported Shipped to Siberia

July 24, 1940
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The Russians have deported at least 4,000 Catholic priests and many rabbis from Russian-occupied Poland to Siberia, The Tablet, British Catholic organ, reports.

The Russians have resorted to increasingly stern measures to enforce their atheistic policies in the occupied territory, it was said. Under recently-imposed regulations, no one can obtain official assistance in finding employment unless he or she joins the League of the Godless, the weekly states.

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