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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 rubbishbark, 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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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.
To: GodfearingTexan
So what we have people like that in the hills of WV. LOL
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posted on
01/29/2013 10:53:07 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: GodfearingTexan
I have read other stories of Christians who fled into the Russian wilderness to escape persecution but none like this.
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posted on
01/29/2013 11:00:59 PM PST
by
fso301
To: GodfearingTexan
wow. Interesting article. Thank you
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posted on
01/29/2013 11:03:27 PM PST
by
marsh2
To: GodfearingTexan
That was a truly amazing tale of man’s unconquerable and enduring spirit. Thank you so much for posting this.
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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.)
To: GodfearingTexan
True survivalists. . with a Christian core. . escaping communist persecution. . and we're supposed to give up our guns.
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posted on
01/29/2013 11:20:27 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: GodfearingTexan
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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.)
To: GodfearingTexan
Thank you for the wonderful post. BTTT.
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posted on
01/29/2013 11:43:11 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: GodfearingTexan
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posted on
01/29/2013 11:53:57 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: GodfearingTexan
To: GodfearingTexan
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:00:11 AM PST
by
The SISU kid
(I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
To: GodfearingTexan
To: GodfearingTexan
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:30:36 AM PST
by
JZoback
To: GodfearingTexan
Beverly HillsBillskyas? Think of how much easier their lives would have been with an AR-7. Damned Schumer.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:46:30 AM PST
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: GodfearingTexan
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:53:42 AM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: GodfearingTexan
In my opinion this is a story about how a manic delusion led a family into decades of isolation and deprivation. Sad.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:56:57 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: muir_redwoods
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.
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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'.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
01/30/2013 3:31:41 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: GodfearingTexan
How did they ever survive without Government "assistance."
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posted on
01/30/2013 3:41:25 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
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