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...When Lidiya Vashchenko, 30, was admitted to Moscow's Botkin Hospital Jan. 30, her weight had dropped from 115 Ibs. to 84 Ibs., and she was dehydrated. Still she refused to eat until doctors threatened force-feeding. A visitor from the Illinois-based Christian Legal Society last week reported that Vashchenko was out of intensive care and "in good spirits...
...embassy in Moscow since they crashed past embassy guards in 1978. They had hoped, vainly, that U.S. diplomats could arrange their departure from the Soviet Union, where they have suffered persecution for their Pentecostal beliefs. On Christmas Day, Vashchenko's mother Augustina began a hunger strike, and Lidiya joined three days later. As her health deteriorated, embassy officials decided to have her moved to the hospital...
Their plan was inspired by Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov's successful hunger strike late last year. Augustina started taking only juice and water on Dec 25, despite the opposition of Pyotr and the Christian teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...
...During a harsh anti-Christian campaign, starting in 1961, worship services were routinely broken up and many Pentecostal leaders were jailed. When their children faced cruel harassment at school-ridicule, ostracism and beatings-the Vashchenkos decided to educate them at home. The state then ruled them unfit parents, seized Lidiya and two sisters in 1962, and sent them to be raised in institutions until they turned...
Even if the bill passes, it may be too late for Augustina and Lidiya, who this month wrote Soviet President Brezhnev. "People of the world "-" case as a murder committed by you. If these two great countries cannot find a positive solution to this small question, how then can they solve the big ones...