Word: doukhobor
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Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...band of 75 Sons, led by six naked men and a naked woman, crowded into the home of John Lebidoff, an orthodox Doukhobor, and set it afire. Sorrowfully, he submitted, because, like all Doukhobors, he has forsworn violence even in defense of his rights. At Nelson, another orthodox Dcukhobor, Peter Reiben. was warned that his house was to be burned. While he sat up at night to guard it, his haystacks and barns were set ablaze. An orthodox Doukhobor community house at Shoreacres was fired at midday by nearly 100 fanatics, who stripped and paraded...
...When Anista Arishnikoff's home was set afire, she knelt in front of it, full of joy. "Look," she cried, "I protest the coming of World War III." Freedomite Helen Domoskoff said proudly: "I burned my house and my lovely radio." Local and provincial police, long troubled by Doukhobor outbreaks but unwilling to be called "persecutors," held back...
...barely audible voice the dowdy Doukhobor farm girl told of her friendship with the Russian major...
...Emma Woikin, a young (25), good-looking cipher clerk in the External Affairs Department. She is a Doukhobor from Saskatchewan, of Russian parentage. Said the report: she gave Zabotin "the contents of secret telegrams to which she had access...