«No 7 : 30 April 1969» In spite of the USSR Constitution, which guarantees freedom of conscience, the Greek-Catholic or UniateChurch was forcibly liquidated in 1944 by organs of the MGB (KGB predecessor) in Western Ukraine. Priests who did not adopt the Orthodox faith were sent to camps after false charges had been fabricated. The … Continue reading Uniate believers again persecuted, April 1969 (7.5)
The arrest of Yakhimovich, March 1969 (7.2)
«No 7 : 30 April 1969» Ivan Yakhimovich was arrested on 24 March 1969 in the town of Jurmale in the Latvian SSR. * Yakhimovich is 38 and was born into a family of Polish workers. He completed a course in the faculty of history and philology of the Latvian State University. After university he … Continue reading The arrest of Yakhimovich, March 1969 (7.2)