Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)

On 26 July 1972, the paper Evening Tbilisi [Vecherny Tbilisi] published an interview with the Rector of the Pushkin Pedagogical institute in Tbilisi, Natela Vasadze. it included, amongst other things, the following exchange: Correspondent -- At a recent Plenum of the City Council one of your teachers was criticised for performing religious ceremonies in a … Continue reading Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)

Persecution of Believers in Lithuania, 1969-1972 (25.7)

<<No 25 : 20 May 1972>> Amongst cases of the infringement of believers' rights mentioned in “the Memorandum of the Catholics of Lithuania” [note 1] (see CCE 24.6) is the dismissal of O[na] Briliene, a schoolmistress and believer, by the Vilkaviskis district department of public education. In October 1969, the headmaster of a high school … Continue reading Persecution of Believers in Lithuania, 1969-1972 (25.7)