<< No 16 : 31 October 1970>> 1. ERUAND LALAYANTS Referring to A. Yenina's article "Renegades" (Leningradskaya Pravda, 18 January 1970) in "The Soviet Press on the Persecution of Dissenters" (CCE 14.5), the Chronicle's information about the fate of Eruand LALAYANTS included certain inaccuracies [correction CCE 18.14]. * E.A. Lalayants (b. 1925), fought in the … Continue reading Reports in the Soviet Press, October 1970 (16.7)
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Religious Persecution, October 1970 (16.6)
<<No 16 : 31 October 1970>> CATHOLICS and BAPTISTS. [1] CATHOLICS At the end of October 1970, the Catholic church was closed in the village of Zarechanka (formerly Balya-Kostyolnaya) in the Grodno Region of Belorussia. The village forms part of the Suvorov collective farm (kolkhoz). The church was closed on the instructions of the local … Continue reading Religious Persecution, October 1970 (16.6)