Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

een done by Vins or Gennadi Kriuchkov, who was in hiding. In order to strengthen their work they added B. Ia. Schmidt to the council and four candidate members and added Ia. G. Skorniakov to the evangelist department.“# Missing from these lists were men like §. G. Dubovoi and P. A. Iakimenkov, who had come into conflict with Kriuchkov. By 1979 the Bulletin was full of appeals on behalf of three evangelists (Pavel Rytikov, Peter P. Peters, and Ia. G. Skorniakov), all of whom were back in prison. In the summer of 1979 Ivan Ia. Antonov was arrested and a month before he was due to go on pension, he received a two-year sentence under the parasite laws for not being employed. In November another well-known leader, M. I. Khorev, was arrested. K. K. Kreker and D. V. Miniakov complained about increased harassment and ex- pected arrest. In the absence of Vins, the CCECB had elected Nikolai G. Baturin as acting secretary, but he too was arrested on 5 November 1979.4 Baturin and an-associate had been arrested as they were correcting proofs for the journal Vestnik Istiny (Herald of Truth) which had replaced the old Vestnik Spasenie (Herald of Salvation), the new one being printed on the secret printing press. The publication department of the CCECB ‘was to suffer more blows in 1979. Already on April 11, 1979, a bookbinding operation in Moldavia had been discovered. They had been preparing 1,380 copies of Bulletin No. 60, which they had then given to two brothers, Nikolai and Alexander Chekh, to transport to Moscow. Valentina Na- prienko and Georgi Dzhurik were sentenced to three and two years prison respectively while the Chekh brothers lost their automobile and had 20 percent of their wages withheld.4* Then on 19 January 1980 another print- ing press was discovered in Staryi Kadaki near Dnepropetrovsk. Four 436 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il persons were arrested as they were preparing the next issue of Vestnik Istiny. Still another printing press in the village of Glivenki (Krasnoder) was discovered on June 18, 1980 and four persons were arrested. These have been serious hindrances to the work but there are other printing presses still operating and no doubt still others will be built.46 The apparent easing of the situation through unconditional church registration was also coming to an end. Bratskii Listok, the official CCECB journal, in late 1979 printed a number of documents, all of which carried the same general message.47 The authorities had sent the registered CCECB affiliates forms to fill out in which they were asked to provide in- formation on their activities. The congregation in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, was to supply details not only on total income but also on all expenses, including how much had been paid to the Peace Fund and the fund for preserving ar- chitectural monuments. The church in Ordzhonikidze received a list of 17 prohibitions wh