Contents PROLOGUE Wearing the Dunce's Cap & Observations 10 1961 1 Whose Fate is the Director's Concern? 44 1962 2 A Sect of Fanatics Was Exposed 50 3 The Shyness of Power 51 4 Under the Domination of Obscurity 55 5 The 'Quakers' Tremble with Fear from Responsibility 58 6 Behind Closed Shutters 60 7 End to the Obscurantists 66 8 To Fight with Reason Rather than with 'Records' 70 9 God's Fools in Christ 73 10 The Obscurantist 75 11 According to their Merits 76 12 Fanatics on Trial 76 13 During the Trial Intermission 77 14 The Sentence Was Met with Approval 81 15 Under the Mask of a 'Saint' 85 1963 16 The Chairman in the Role of a Hypocrite 88 17 Six Who Made the Choice 89 18 The Trial Should Be Continued 91 19 Such Things Are Not Forgiven 95 20 Scales Fell from the Eyes 98 VI CONTENTS 1964 21 Sectarians on Trial 102 22 According to their Merits 103 23 Fanaticism of the Believers and Indifference of the Atheists 104 24 A Proud Badge 110 25 With the Cross on their Chests and with Switches in their Hands 114 26 Crimes Against Persons and Citizens' Rights Committed by Religious Groups 120 27 Black and Red 128 28 Wild Fanatics 133 1965 Those Who Spread Darkness Reason Against Dope 1966 The Road Without God Is Wider They Received What They Deserved Is Stepanov a Lost Man? Prophets and Victims 1967 Extract from 'The Brutal Hypocrites' 1968 Once Upon a Time There Was a Little Girl.. EPILOGUE