Word: regelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either the Soviet Union or several nations of Black Africa. In fact, the delegates were forced to face the question of Soviet repression principally by a gutsy Nairobi-based Christian newspaper, Target, which printed a smuggled plea to the World Council from Moscow Priest Gleb Yakunin and Layman Lev Regelson. The pair complained that the council had made no protest when "the Russian Orthodox Church was half destroyed" in the early 1960s, and pleaded for a crusade against persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union...
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