The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966), was an English clergyman, Dean of Manchester and later Dean of Canterbury, where he acquired his nickname The Red Dean of Canterbury for his unyielding support for Soviet regime and its satellites. 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... see also Holy Orders The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. ... Manchester is a city in England, considered by many to be the countrys second city [1][2]. It is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and big business. ... The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral in England. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ...

Born in Manchester, the third son of Charles Johnson, wire manufacturer, and his wife Rosa, daughter of the Reverend Alfred Hewlett, he graduated from Owens College, Manchester in 1894 with the geological prize but later attended Wadham College, Oxford and was ordained in 1904. An avowed Christian Marxist, Johnson was brought under surveilence by MI5 as early as 1917, when he spoke in Manchester in support of the October Revolution. His political views were unpopular but his hard work and pastoral skills led to him becoming Dean of Manchester in 1924. He was appointed Dean of Canturbury in 1929 by Ramsay MacDonald. Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Current MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London The Security Service, usually called MI5, is the British counter-intelligence and security agency. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution or November Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866–9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...

He shot to public prominence in the 1930s when he contrasted the economic development of the USSR under the First Five Year Plan to Britain during the Great Depression. He toured the Soviet Union in 1934 ( just after the worst period of the Holodomor and again in 1937 at the height of the Great Purge, reporting on each occaision the health and wealth of the average Soviet citizen and that the Soviet system protected the citizens liberties, collecting his articles in "Soviet Power", published in 1941. This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletkas (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. ... The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late in 1930) and lasting through most of the 1930s. ... Child victim of the Holodomor The Holodomor (Ukrainian: ) was famine in the territory of Soviet Ukraine in the years 1932–1933 and one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in modern history, with loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary); the famine was... The Great Purge (Russian: ) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. ...

During the period of the operation of the Hitler-Soviet Pact, Johnson continued to support the Soviet line despite the fact that Britain was at war with Germany and was accused of spreading defeatist propaganda. However, in line with the Soviet line, he supported the war effort after Hitler invaded the USSR in 1941, although his MI5 file reports that it was judged "undesirable for the Dean of Canterbury to be allowed to lecture to troops". [1] Combatants Axis Powers Soviet Union Commanders Supreme commander: Adolf Hitler Supreme commander: Josef Stalin Strength ~ 3. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...

Johnson was arguably the most prominent of a number of Western church leaders during the Second World War, which is said to have persuaded Stalin to restore the Moscow Patriarchate as a publicity gesture. "It was not the vanity of a former seminary dropout that moved the Soviet leader," Volkogonov concludes, "but rather pragmatic considerations in relation with the Allies." [2] The West can refer to : The U.S. West or the American West The Western world, or Western Civilization. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Saint Basils Cathedral, a well-known Russian Orthodox church situated in Moscow The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ...

After the war he continued to use his public position to propound his pro-Soviet views.From 1948, he was the leader of Great Britain-USSR Friendship Organisation.At the end of the war Johnson was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, in recognition of his "outstanding work as chairman of the joint committee for Soviet Aid", and in 1951 received the Stalin International Peace Prize. However, his influence began to wane, particularly after public sympathy for the USSR in Britain declined dramatically after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Combatants Soviet Union AVH Hungarian government, various nationalist militias Commanders Yuri Andropov Pál Maléter, Gergely Pongrátz, József Dudás Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks 100,000+ demonstrators (some later armed), unknown number of soldiers Casualties 720 KIA 2502 The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Johnson's adversaries have called Johnson's endeavours to unite Christianity and Marxism as a heretical teaching concerning a new religion, which in his opinion was to replace the Christian religion and be a synthesis of Christianity and Marxism-Leninism (see H. Johnson, Christianity and Communism, Moscow, 1957).[3]

Citations on USSR

“The ideal held out to a child differs entirely from that still too common here (England) – ‘Word hard and get on’.” (p.195).

“Education from first to last is provided for all without monetary payments, from the excellently equipped nursery-schools right up to the university course.” (p.185).

“There is no financial difficulty which hinders a ... student from entering the university or institute for higher education.” (p.207).

“Technical institutes await children (of workers) free of charge.” (p.237).

“What has the Soviet Union done for its youth and what is it doing?...On his seventeenth birthday and not before, he can enter industry.” (p.205)

Bibliography

• The Secrets of Soviet Strength, 1943
• Christians and Communism (London, 1956).

External links

• http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/wright/1941/02/dean.htm John G. Wright The Dean of Canterbury’s Soviet Power(February 1941)