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...recovery was a new twist in a particularly sensitive diplomatic stalemate. The Siberian Seven-Vashchenko, four family members and two friends-have lived in a 12-ft. by 20-ft. room in the basement of the U.S. 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...
...coming of winter-and it was to reach a Siberian 23 below zero in Seminole, Texas-inspired Hopkins to an unheard-of extravagance. Why, he asked Roosevelt at a White House lunch in October 1933, couldn't the Federal Government simply hire the unemployed for the winter at all kinds of part-time jobs that needed doing, such as repairing roads or teaching the illiterate or simply raking leaves? How many jobs would be feasible, asked the President. Hopkins made a quick guess: 4 million. "Let's see," said Roosevelt, "4 million people-that means roughly $400 million...
Known to the outside world as "the Siberian Seven," they are Russian Pentecostalists, revivalist worshipers who want to emigrate to the U.S. with the rest of their families. Thus far, the Soviet Union has blocked their efforts. Last week, in the most dramatic in their 20-year battle, two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her daughter Lidiya, 30, were on a hunger strike and failing fast. "Lidiya is down to her last reserves," said visiting Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster. "It could become a life-threatening situation...
...Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy, seeking to go to the U.S. Pyotr Vashchenko, now 55, Augustina, and their three daughters, Lidiya, Lyubov, 29, and Liliya, 24, along with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
While in the embassy, the group completed a 225,000-word account of their heart-rending saga, reworked by John Pollock as The Siberian Seven (Word; $8.95). 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...