The Soviet government, certain that religion is the opium of the people, has always tried hard to help its citizens kick the habit. Last week Pravda announced that the Communist Party had undertaken a grand new program to excise God from the minds and the hearts of all Russians.
The plan, drawn up by the party's Ideological Commission, is perhaps the most thorough in Soviet history. The commission will set up a new Institute of Scientific Atheism, offer courses in the subject at Russian universities starting this fall. Atheism will be taught more intensively at...
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