Word: pyotr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What they do mostly, though, is hold prayer meetings and silently hope they will eventually win the right to emigrate to the West. All of them-Pyotr and Augustina Vashchenko, their three adult daughters, and a mother and son, Mariya and Timofei Chmykhalov-are Pentecostalists, a handful of the millions of Christians who have suffered religious persecution in the Soviet Union. For the Vashchenkos, the struggle to emigrate began 16 years ago in the grim mining town of Chernogorsk after the government seized children from supposedly "unfit" Pentecostal parents and sent them to be reared by state agencies...
Alexander Zinoviev, a satirist of Soviet life, emigrated to Munich last month. The Supreme Soviet's action against him was the same as that taken this year against emigrees Maj. Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko and Mstislav Rostropovitch...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir, 49, was charged with passing information to the West about dissent in the U.S.S.R. Yakir, who had spent 17 years in Stalin's forced-labor camps, admitted his guilt both on the stand and later at an extraordinary public news conference, thereby escaping a prison sentence. Before his trial, however, Yakir had told a British reporter: "If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps...
Grigori Goldshtein, 46, and Pyotr Vins, 21, members of Helsinki watch groups in Georgia and the Ukraine, have been sentenced to one year in concentration camps for "malicious evasion of socially useful labor." Leaders of a similar group in Kiev, Engineer Myroslav Marinovych, 28. and Historian Mykola Matusevych, 30, have been sentenced to seven years in jail plus five years of internal exile for "anti-Soviet agitation...
Helms worked on the U-2 project, which brought us our first aerial photographic views of Soviet military capability and later warned us of the Cuban missile crisis. He was part of the undercover seduction of Soviet Spies Oleg Penkovsky and Pyotr Popov, the former passing along a manual on the field operation of Russian nuclear missiles...