The Sentence of the Soviet Court to Boris Perchatkin
The first sentence of Boris Perchatkin.
The second sentence was withheld by the camp administration and declared missing.
This is the price, one of many paid for freedom of religion and for asylum in the USA for evangelical Christians.
Sentence
in the name of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
On April 3, 1981, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Primorsky Regional Court composed of:
presiding V.D. Mikhailyukov;
people’s assessors G.F. Korol, A.I. Korobeyev
with secretary V.I. Belotserkovets
with the participation of the State Prosecutor – Prosecutor I.P. Lebedev
defense attorney B.A. Dogot
considered in open court session case No. 2-13 on charges against
PERCHATKIN Boris Georgievich, born July 1, 1946, native of the city of Mirgorod, Poltava region, Russian, citizen of the USSR, non-party, with a 10‑grade education, married, having six children aged one to ten years, not previously convicted, working as a plumber‑mechanic at the Housing and Communal Services Office of the Nakhodka Active Marine Fishing Base, residing in the city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, Uritsky Lane, house 11 –
in committing a crime under Article 190‑1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code,
e s t a b l i s h e d :
The defendant Perchatkin B.G., being one of the leaders of the Pentecostal sectarians in the city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, and since 1980 the secretary of the so‑called “Council of Churches of Evangelical Christian Pentecostals in the USSR,” since 1976 began to actively participate in activities aimed at organizing the mass departure of Pentecostals from the Soviet Union to capitalist countries. To this end, he systematically traveled from the city of Nakhodka to other regions of the country, met with his like‑minded associates, renegades from among the so‑called “dissidents,” foreign correspondents, and other representatives of capitalist countries, to whom he orally and in writing conveyed tendentious and slanderous information about the situation of Pentecostals in the USSR. Personally and together with his accomplices, he drafted, signed, and distributed to international organizations and foreign statesmen appeals, statements, and letters containing slanderous fabrications defaming the Soviet state and social system.
Specifically, Perchatkin B.G. is guilty of the following crimes:
In 1976, the defendant Perchatkin, on his own behalf and on behalf of members of his family, drafted and distributed an “Appeal to the World Council of Churches, the UN, and the heads of state signatories to the Helsinki Accords,” which slanderously claims “constant persecution of believers in the USSR” and “savage atrocities” against them, and contains a call to the said organizations and heads of state to help Pentecostals leave the USSR. The text of the “appeal” was handed by the defendant to Moscow resident A.I. Ginzburg, sentenced in 1978 under Article 70, Part 2 of the RSFSR Criminal Code and subsequently expelled from the USSR, who included the text of the “Appeal” in a compiled … anti‑Soviet collection “Come out of her, my people.”
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