The institution of Lent is nothing but a capitalist plot to glorify the starvation of the workers, Pravda told its readers last week. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. were urged to avoid the sinister practice of fasting for the 40 days before Easter—"especially damaging because it coincides with the time of spring sowing, and it decreases sharply the labor productivity of the collective farmers."
A related danger: the practice of confession, which turns the church in capitalist countries into a smoothly working espionage organization against the "revolutionary feelings of the people." No one knows how many Russian backsliders are observing Lent, but Pravda...
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