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one wife. Besides these principal sects there are numerous 

 smaller ones. One can run almost the same round of strange 

 and erratic religious beliefs in Russia as in the United States. 

 There are the Pliassuny (Dancers), Samobogi (Self-gods), 

 Chislenniki (Computers), who have changed Sunday so as 

 to fall on Wednesday, and Easter to the middle of the week, 

 Pashkovites, Radstockites (so named after their founders), 

 and numerous others, which exploit some peculiar tenet of 

 their various founders and believers. In addition to these are 

 the various missionary enterprises and local churches of West- 

 em Protestantism, of which the Lutherans and Baptists are 

 the leading ones. 



