Faithful Under Trials - Jehovah's Witnesses In the Soviet Union

Overview

On three nights in early April 1951, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses from Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic lands - men, women and children - were loaded into boxcars and exiled to Siberia. This mass deportation marked a critical moment in the prolonged ideological attack on Jehovah's Witnesses. Why did the powerful Soviet government regard the witnesses as a threat? how did they survive and prosper despite decades of unrelenting persecution? In this video, historians and eyewitnesses recount the enlightening and inspiring story of Johvah's Witnesses in the former Soviet Union."