In 1959 an article in the official organ Izvestia said that "The Baptists and other evangelical sects mislead people with high-flown words, and try to divert them from industrious life, from the enlightened happenings of our great era. They try to disrupt Soviet morality".
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In the summer of 1946 Louie De Votie Newton, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention of the USA was invited by Joseph Stalin to visit Russia on a five-week tour and to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists.
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