Newspaper article “Men Ateistimin” (“I Am an Atheist”)

Description

This exhibit is a newspaper article entitled “Men Ateistimin” (“I Am an Atheist”), published on 10 July 1966 in the newspaper “Kommunistik Enbek” (“Communist Labor”). The article was written by Zh. Kaliyeva, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a labor veteran. The publication reflects the ideological policy of the Soviet period, which promoted atheism and scientific materialism as part of the state’s cultural and educational agenda. Printed by typographic methods on newsprint, the article retains the characteristic layout and style of Soviet newspapers of the 1960s. It is historically significant as documentary evidence of the social, political, and cultural life of Kazakhstan during the Soviet era and as an example of mid-20th-century periodical publishing.