P. Katayan, the chief attorney of the G. P. U., the Russian secret police, denied today that religious persecution existed in Soviet Russia. “Only those who harm socialistic industrialization and who are agents of imperialistic government or who hide and assist foreign spies who are preparing for capitalistic armies for an anti-Soviet war have been persecuted,” he said.
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