«No 7 : 30 April 1969» Uniate Believers again Persecuted. In spite of the [1936] USSR Constitution, which guarantees freedom of conscience, the Greek-Catholic or Uniate Church 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 … Continue reading Uniate Believers, Apr ’69 (7.5)
Yakhimovich Arrest, Mar ’69 (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 Yakhimovich Arrest, Mar ’69 (7.2)