Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

the summer rooms of the Jubilee Building there will be a meeting of local residents to consider the question of the anti- social activities of the group of Pentecostals in Stantsia Starotitarovskoe—by order of the execu- tive committee of the Soviet.” (Both photos courtesy of Keston College) Ble um MAMMA COCT MUTE CU CTGH Wcneakom COBETA. 309 CCECB General Secretary Georgi P. Vins. ( 310 Photo courtesy of Keston College) | a / : | ABOVE: The family of the imprisoned Reform Baptist leader Georgi Vins at the beginning of his term in 1974. (Photo courtesy of Keston College) BELOW: Interior of the Reform Baptist Church in Kiev which was registered unconditionally in August 1975 while its prominent member Georg! Vins was in prison. 311 ting together In 1976. Front row, left to right: D. V. Miniakov, ptala, K. K. Kroeker. TOP: Six members of the CCECB mee G. K. Kriuchkov, N. P. Khrapov. Standing: M. |. Khorev, M. T. Sha BOTTOM: Members of Council of Prisoners’ Relatives in 1979. Seated second from right is ding second from left; the new president President Lidia M. Vins; Secretary Galina Rytikova is stan’ following Lidia Vins’s departure is A. T. Kozorezova, third from left, standing. (Both photos courtesy Friedensstimme) 312 CPR activist Galina Rytikova with her si i Rytik six children in the earl ies; i oldest was recently imprisoned for his faith. (Photo cilities oN sialon Callegey” es 313 j i | q TOP: CCECB evangelist lakov Skorniakov with his wife, shortly before Imprisonment in 1978. BOTTOM LEFT: Johan Steffan, leader of the Reform Baptist Church in Issyk, Kazakhstan, began serving his fourth prison setence in 1974. A photo taken secretly in 1979 shows him in a seriously emaciated condition. He wrote to his wife recently, “My conditions cannot become worse than they are.” (Photo courtesy of Friedensstimme) BOTTOM RIGHT: Boris M. Zdorovets in the late seventies after another prison term. An early Reform Baptist leader. (Photo courtesy of Keston College) 314 | é | i | a i | ‘ | 1 A : : TOP: Valentin Naprienko, here shown with his family, was sentenced to three years of strict regimen in August 1979 because he transported religious literature in his automobile. (Photo courtesy Friedensstimme) BOTTOM LEFT: Boris M. Zdorovets with his wife in 1971 after release from ten years’ prison and exile. (Bottom photos courtesy of Keston College) BOTTOM RIGHT: Close-up of Boris M. Zdorovets, early Reform Baptist leader, most of whose life has been wasted in prison camps. 315 ses AHS ETAT PIE PASTE IEEE RBH TICES AORN hi ( bl — Y3 3 EBAHTENG | BONER Gros FemposueZ a ABOVE: A typical photo montage circulated as a prayer reminder among Reform Baptists in the Soviet Union. The words read: “New prisoners for the cause of the gospel. Remember my chains.” Photos concern Jakob P. Wol