When long-jawed, saturnine Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, leader of the Right Wing conservative group in the Communist Party, presented a bill to the Congress of Soviets last week, another of the most cherished ideas of the early Bolshevik leaders was headed quietly for the shelf.
Violent anti-religious propaganda has been as intrinsic a part of Communism as anti-capitalist propaganda. However, active persecution of the Greek Orthodox Church ceased in Russia two years ago. Perceiving that harsh tactics had, if anything, a stimulating effect upon oldtime religion...
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