True story, The Persecutor: Nikiforov pulled out a confidential police bulletin...The document told of a major antireligious action organization that was being vastly increased...specially trained workers were to use films, papers, recordings, lectures, tapes, plays, displays and propaganda of every kind to spread atheism and combat religious faith... But what about the Believers saying they have the right to religious freedom? I asked. Thats in the constitution for the record, he said. But you and I both are men. Weve lived. We know reality. I overheard him talk to one of the arrested Believers. Youre here because of anti-Soviet literature found in your possession. But, protested the Believer, who had been roughed up pretty badly, how could the Bible be anti-Soviet literature? Our government states it is printing Bibles, how can they be anti-Soviet? Shut up, Nikiforov responded angrily and went on with his interrogation. Later I learned that our government did claim it had printed ten thousand Bibles. But that announcement was for public consumption abroad, to show the Soviet Union as believing in religious freedom. Virtually none of those Bibles ever got to the Russian Believers. Thats why they had smuggled or handwritten Bibles
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:31:00 +0000
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