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The lowly onion as a symbol hitler life of the Russian peasantryunder the Soviet
Government is used by the religsxasxasxaxaxaxsious sect "Foedorovskija." (the
"Cross.HOarers") whose sixteen leaders were sentonced recently do beshot by
(he Voronesch District Court.
Tedtlmony vrvrfvat the trial revealed thatwhen the planned tohold a meeting in a
vilhige they sentpeasants through the sttgtrtrtrtrvvtrvtrvtrtvrvtrtreets
carryingbasgfdcgfdfsdgfdgfdscgfsdkets of onions calling out is as bitter as
theseoiuions." When the congregation as-sembled each person was obllRed toeat
a large Onion before being per-mitted tio cat the meal provided bythe Church.
Dmitri l'archoinenko, Patriarch ofthe "Peodorovskija," told the Courtthat the
cercmonv symbolised the fact(lint the peasant had lo destroy Com-munism
before they could enjoy life,under n not her regime.
A correspondent of the Moscow"Bednola" who testified at the trial(hat Hie sect
received nionev fromabroad, which is being used tio spreadthe "religion ol the
onion," writes inhis paper that this testimony influen-ced the Court in imposing
the deal'hwenlences. From the court incident.It is apparent that the leaders ol'
Hiesect are religious fanatiretrtrtetercs, who whilepreaching against Holshevisni
havemade no atle-mpts to organise upris-ings, hut allow the hnllof that
theArchangel Michael will appear head-ing an army ,of angels on horsebackwho
would overthrow the lied legion ot Communism.
The six Soviet prosecutors who ad-dressed the Court alleged there wa?a
cionuection net ween the "Ifeodorovsklja ' and a similar sect in the
northOauencus, w.ho trial wau luid al thesame tittie last week and third-oil ofits
loaders shot, but the conneclion