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...been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned in the notorious Vorkuta Arctic Circle prison camp, from which he later escaped. Said he angrily: "We who are here are the true friends of France. It is Khrushchev who is the enemy of France...
...pity that the nine U.S. Protestant churchmen visiting Russia [March 26] could not extend their route to the nightmarish arctic hell of Vorkuta, where so many of their colleagues are practicing high treason by holding secret religious services. Is this what Metropolitan Nikolai meant when he said, "We must now forgive and forget...
...Legal Mind. In Munich, after he was sentenced to a three-day jail term or a 15-mark ($4.70) fine in 1952 for illegal fishing, Robert Adler spent a day in jail and then disappeared, got picked up by the Russians and shipped to Vorkuta slave labor camp for three years, was collared by Berlin authorities when he finally returned, forced to pay the 10-mark balance of his fine...
Chalice in Vorkuta. For a whole year, the Soviet authorities permitted Pietro Leoni and France's Father Jean Nicolas to administer the sacraments to Roman Catholics in Odessa. The Russian Orthodox priests watched suspiciously. Of them, Father Leoni says bitterly: "They do not serve God - only the Communist regime." Then, one day in 1945, Father Nicolas disappeared. Recalls Father Leoni : "Later that day, two men came up to me and said 'Come with us ; it's just a question of a few formalities. You'll be free in ten minutes.' Those ten minutes lasted...
...prisoner from Mongolia approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy was due to the fact that the Lord never...