BURMESE NEWS ARTICLES SAYS COMMUNISTS IN MONGOLIA PLAN TO STEP UP PROPAGANDA AGAINST RELIGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190063-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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BURMESE NEWS ARTICLE SAYS COMMUNISTS IN WNGOLIA
PLAN TO STEP UP PROPAGANDA AGAINST RELIGION
Hong Kong, 24 March -- The Mongolian People's Republic intends to step up
propaganda activities for the purpose of stBa
according to.a 23 March broadcast from Ulan Bator, cat religion in Mongolia,
The broadcast said +,se following:
"Although we, the people of Mongolia, have always worked to improve our
national economy under the leadership of the Revolutionary Party as we march
alone tc:iard Socialism, we have been lax in our propaganda activities aimed at
stamping out religion.
"Although Lenin on the subject of socialism and religion wrote that reli-
gion is the opiate of the people, our party has rejected antireligious propa-
ganda activities. This is so even though our party follows Leninist-Marxist
doctrine and even while it has marched along the road to Socialism by improv-
ing t.,e national economy and by making progress culturally.
"We will have to expand our propaganda greatly in order to stamp out re-
ligion, beaming our propaganda at the backward fanatical religious leaders and
their followers."
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