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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
smithsonian magazine ^ | Mike Dash

Posted on 01/29/2013 10:34:01 PM PST by GodfearingTexan

"beside a stream there was a dwelling. Blackened by time and rain, the hut was piled up on all sides with taiga rubbish—bark, poles, planks. If it hadn't been for a window the size of my backpack pocket, it would have been hard to believe that people lived there. But they did, no doubt about it.... Our arrival had been noticed, as we could see."

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1 posted on 01/29/2013 10:34:12 PM PST by GodfearingTexan
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To: GodfearingTexan

Old Believers are a kind of Amish.
Most fled Russia after communist takeover, thus they were persecuted much earlier.
Most of them are living in South America, Australia, United States and kept their lifestyles.


2 posted on 01/29/2013 10:50:17 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: GodfearingTexan

So what we have people like that in the hills of WV. LOL


3 posted on 01/29/2013 10:53:07 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: GodfearingTexan

I have read other stories of Christians who fled into the Russian wilderness to escape persecution but none like this.


4 posted on 01/29/2013 11:00:59 PM PST by fso301
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To: GodfearingTexan

wow. Interesting article. Thank you


5 posted on 01/29/2013 11:03:27 PM PST by marsh2
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To: GodfearingTexan

That was a truly amazing tale of man’s unconquerable and enduring spirit. Thank you so much for posting this.


6 posted on 01/29/2013 11:05:16 PM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: GodfearingTexan
True survivalists. . with a Christian core. . escaping communist persecution. . and we're supposed to give up our guns.
7 posted on 01/29/2013 11:20:27 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: GodfearingTexan

bfl


8 posted on 01/29/2013 11:30:07 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: GodfearingTexan

Thank you for the wonderful post. BTTT.


9 posted on 01/29/2013 11:43:11 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: GodfearingTexan

Awesome story!


10 posted on 01/29/2013 11:53:57 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: GodfearingTexan

Great story!


11 posted on 01/30/2013 12:21:57 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
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To: GodfearingTexan

Bookmark


12 posted on 01/30/2013 1:00:11 AM PST by The SISU kid (I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
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To: GodfearingTexan

remarkable


13 posted on 01/30/2013 1:09:29 AM PST by XHogPilot
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To: GodfearingTexan

Bm


14 posted on 01/30/2013 1:30:36 AM PST by JZoback
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To: GodfearingTexan

Beverly HillsBillskyas? Think of how much easier their lives would have been with an AR-7. Damned Schumer.


15 posted on 01/30/2013 1:46:30 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: GodfearingTexan

Amazing


16 posted on 01/30/2013 1:53:42 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: GodfearingTexan

In my opinion this is a story about how a manic delusion led a family into decades of isolation and deprivation. Sad.


17 posted on 01/30/2013 1:56:57 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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In my opinion this is a story about how a manic delusion led a family into decades of isolation and deprivation. Sad.

How true that is.

A manic delusion called 'Communism' caused the death by shooting of Lykov's brother. He and his family escaped into the Siberian wilderness to avoid becoming some more of Stalin's statistics in the Great Terror.

I would have used the words 'evil' and 'tyrannical', but yes; Communism is also sad in its grinding destruction of human lives.

18 posted on 01/30/2013 3:00:30 AM PST by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: Kartographer

Ping.


19 posted on 01/30/2013 3:31:41 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: GodfearingTexan
How did they ever survive without Government "assistance."
20 posted on 01/30/2013 3:41:25 AM PST by SkyPilot
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