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e and invincible, bee was Father Dudko’s conviction demonstrated in the fearless way he conducted his conversations. That has also been the reason why the Reform Baptists in particular have be come a youthful movement, Gi i perspective, Dudko was optimistic: re Hie time for atheistic revelry in Russia has ended. The snowstorms and lizzards have blown away. There will be a religious spring and - one is working towards it, believers and atheists alike, ve Notes to Chapter 11 . Bulletin, No. 34, p. 8; cf. Nos. 32 and 36. Numerous tee in Bulletin No. 54, 1978. ee, for example, Bourdeaux, Faith on Tri = Bourdeaux & Boiter, p. 4 (AS 256), eae es NiR, July/71. erie Ferment, p. 126 and 162. n Informationen und Berichte (Digeste des Ostens), 3/7 8. G2W, December/77 is a special itled “"y ea ; f ) pecial issue entitled “Wi whi pode a handy collection of articles and documents tT ratlation Fas | ies ; aN Aon a heavily on this collection for the following Perea eeiA i: egislative Discrimination against Believers in the USSR.” Religious NES SUR © be 334 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II Liberty in the Soviet Union, ed. by Michael Bourdeaux et al., 1976, p. 38. 10. Dudko, p. 116. Il. Nachrichten von den Felder der Verfolgung, January/February/79, p. 13, One of several illustrations quoted. 12. Ibid., p. 11. Cf. Bulletin No. 52, 1978. 18. Informationen und Berichte, p. 4. 14, G2W, December/77, p. 164. 15, Academy of Sciences Member A. I. Beletskii gave a lecture in Kiev entitled “‘Nekotorie zamechanie po povodu ateisticheskoi literaturu poslednikh let” (some remarks about atheist literature in recent years) and found a pattern of uncritical repetition of earlier research that was originally scientifically shaky research. A copy of the speech found its way into Reform Baptist hands, the authorities lending credence to its significance by twice warning about this forgery in newspapers. 16, Bociurkiw, “Soviet Research on Religion and Atheism Since 1945,” RCL, January-February/74, pp. 11-16. 17. G. S. Lialina, “Religiia i ateizm: problemy istorii i sovremennost’,” VNA, 17/75, pp. 304-309. Cf. G. L. Andreev, et al., “Piatdesiat let nauchnogo ateizma,” Voprosy Filosofii, December/67, pp. 37-47, in English translation in Research Ma- terials, August/68, pp. 1-5. 18. P. Modesto, “Die religidse Problematik in der sowjetischen Zeitschrift ‘Woprosy Filosofii’ (Fragen der Philosophie) Jahrgan 1976,” Religion und Atheismus in der UdSSR, May/77, p. 2. Modesto in another article, “Sowjetische Belletristik gegen Gott,” August/78, remarks that “all cowardice, covetousness, ly- ing, disrespect of humanity, slander, and ignorance is associated with religion,” p. 19. B. K. Arsenkin, “Voprosy sovershenstvovaniia ateisticheskogo vospitaniia molodezhi,” VNA, 22/78