Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baptists in Bryansk, 250 miles southwest of Moscow, face a like problem. They had managed to acquire local approval to build a new prayer chapel, but last month the government suddenly halted construction. When a large group conducted a protest sit-in at the site, police and soldiers assaulted some 150 members of the congregation. The unusual incidents in Gorky and Bryansk, and repeated articles in Soviet journals lamenting the failure of government atheism campaigns, indicate that Soviet Christianity is not vanishing. It may be gaining spiritual ground...