Word: initsiativniki
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...government's current strategy is to undercut the Baptist underground by building up the All-Union Council and its support in the West; some concessions have been granted the council, and its membership is up. But prospects are bleak for the rival movement. Thousands of Initsiativniki have been forced back into the All-Union Council or outside of all organized religion. For Vins himself, the future almost certainly holds a sentence of up to ten years, since acquittal in political cases is virtually unknown. Vins' wife and four children fear that given his shaky health, he will follow...
Action Group. A well-organized reform movement sprung up called the Initsiativniki (Action Group). In 1965 the reformers formalized the schism by setting up their own church council. Leaders of the new council have been periodically arrested on charges ranging from holding illegal meetings to teaching their own children about Christianity, but the reformers have persisted. In 1966 they assembled 600 people from 130 towns for what was one of Moscow's biggest public protests since the Communists came to power. They began putting out several unauthorized periodicals. For the past 18 months they have even run their...
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