Belarusian Communist Godless Propaganda
In January 1970, in the urban settlement of Zelevo, a trial took place of unregistered Baptists of the Council of Churches, one of the main charges being the upbringing of children in Christian teaching. Residents of the village of Borodichi: disinfectant worker of the sanitary‑epidemiological station Nikolai Shugalo (3rd‑grade education) and collective farmer Nikolai Lazuto (6th‑grade education).
Trial of the Pentecostal brothers from the city of Brest (Bierascie): Matviyuk, Fedorchuk, Kotovich and Kapitunko.
A demonstrative renunciation of faith in God in Buda‑Koshelevo.
About the Pentecostal church with a prayer house on Liteynaya Street in Pinsk. Presbyter Petr Polkhovsky. Mockery of prayers and water baptism. Mockery of Galya’s father Konstantin Krivosheenko, who instructs his daughter to read the Bible and who does not participate in dances. Trial of Petr Polkhovsky, Ivan Polkhovsky and Stepan Antonovich.
Former priest Anton Gorbachev holds an anti‑religious evening for the villagers of Krasnopolye, Mogilev region: “let our life be dedicated not to the Kingdom of Heaven, but to labor activity on earth,” he says with trembling head and hands.
In the second half of the video there is much Belarusian Soviet communist propaganda. And two incidents of foreigners being detained while attempting to bring Christian literature across the border.
The spouses Engi and Antoni Hipisli tried to bring Bibles across the Soviet border. US citizen Paul Gonsales tried to bring spiritual literature printed in New York, Chicago and Toronto.
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