Word: doukhobor
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...their children to school, the Freedomites embarked on a career of terrorism. During the past 40 years, they have been held accountable for 1,112 "depredations" ranging from blowing up power pylons and railroad bridges to planting ingenious booby traps in cigarette packs, which are then dropped in non-Doukhobor towns. All told, the Freedomite terrorists have caused $20 million in damage and taken 20 lives...
...blaming the Canadian government for the murder of Peter Lordly-an event that took place back in 1924. Bombs rocked every lonely mountain town from Nelson (pop. 35,000) to New Denver (pop. 564), and finally the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cracked down. A special Mountie D-squad (for Doukhobor) swarmed through the Kootenays, setting up roadblocks, searching Freedomite homes and cars for bomb components, finally arresting some 120 hard-core Freedomite terrorists. The prisoners were given terms of up to ten years in British Columbia's prison at Agassiz-a fireproof clink that prevented the Freedomites from taking...
Youngsters attending the one-room schoolhouse at Perry Siding, B.C., saw a strange sight as they trooped out of class for their lunch recess one day last week. Ranged outside the school was a crowd of 75 buff-bare men and women, members of the unruly Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,* staging one of their nude protest parades...
...three years a small band of Doukhobors in Hilliers, on Vancouver Island, have struggled to establish a "Spiritual Community of Christ." It was started by Michael ("The Archangel") Verigin, who decided that other "Douks" were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
...gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...