SOVIET UNION (Russia)
(See also Communism)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
abortion: g83 5/22 29; g80 5/22 11
advertising: g77 4/8 30
“afterlife” experiences: g79 11/22 29-30
agriculture: w75 241-242; g74 6/22 30; g74 7/22 3, 6; g73 1/22 29; g71 7/8 8
alcoholic beverages:
beer: g79 5/8 30
consumption: g77 11/22 30
effect on people: g84 7/8 30
percent of personal spending on: g81 3/8 30
soldiers trade tank for vodka: g85 11/8 31
vodka: g79 5/8 30
alcoholism: g85 11/22 31; g81 5/22 29-30; g79 10/8 31; g77 12/22 4-5; g74 4/8 29; g70 4/8 31
arms race: g74 11/8 3-7
army: w81 7/15 3
“artificial blood”: g81 2/22 29
astronomy:
assumption that we are the only civilization in the whole universe is now much more valid (quote): g81 2/22 10
our sun is most likely a rare exception in the stellar world (quote): g81 2/22 9
atheism: w75 233-234; g69 3/22 31; g67 1/22 6; w66 457; w64 104; g64 5/22 29; g64 6/22 9-12; bf 490; g63 12/8 31; g60 11/8 5; g58 10/22 4
Bibles: g67 1/22 7-8; w66 712-713; g60 1/8 8; w56 209, 212, 218, 360; g56 10/22 30; g51 6/8 23
Pentateuch published: w75 487
birth statistics: g62 7/22 31
bonds issued by the czarist government: g83 9/8 30-31
breeding pet foxes: g76 11/8 30
Brezhnev, Leonid I.: w83 11/15 19
buying on credit: g75 10/22 29
canal system: g64 1/8 30
cancer: g74 5/22 30
Caspian Sea: g80 6/8 29; g67 2/22 14-16
caviar (artificial): g76 6/22 29
census: g79 3/22 30
Christmas: w78 12/15 4
college: g74 10/22 31
Constitution: g77 8/8 29
cosmonauts:
coax plant to produce seeds in space: g83 6/22 29
first woman cosmonaut to walk in space: g84 12/22 29
number sent into space: g79 6/22 30
problems during seven months in space: g83 12/8 29
readjusting to earth’s gravity: g79 1/22 29
crackdown on absenteeism: g83 8/8 31
Czechoslovakia: g69 1/22 4-5
diamond discovery: g85 9/22 13; g61 2/8 31
dinosaurs’ skeletons: g77 7/22 30
divorce:
statistics: g81 8/22 16; w80 7/15 3; g78 10/22 4; g77 12/8 3; g76 1/8 31; g76 1/22 3; g73 10/8 11
doctors:
women: g75 4/8 31; g75 11/22 31
eagle skyjacks radio: g82 6/8 31
economy: g83 10/22 29-30; g69 5/22 30; g65 10/8 29; g65 11/8 31; g64 11/22 19; g61 6/8 29
education: yb64 283-284; g61 9/8 26; g58 3/22 9-12; g50 5/22 5-6; g39 5/3 24; g33 5/10 502
energy sources: g75 2/8 30
family: g66 3/8 30; g66 8/8 29; g64 6/22 11; w62 202-203
farming:
law on working hours: g76 12/8 29-30
fireball in Siberia possibly a comet: g77 10/22 30
fishermen rescued from ice floe: g79 4/8 31
fishing vessels: g76 1/8 30-31
food:
percent of personal spending on: g81 3/8 30
foreign aid:
bilateral aid program: g64 10/22 16
from U.S.: g46 4/10 6; g45 6/20 19; g45 11/21 12
to U.S.: g78 3/8 30
geology:
hole in earth to study crust: g84 12/22 29; g77 8/22 30
giant mushrooms: g79 9/8 31
Gorbachev, Mikhail S.:
invokes God’s wisdom: w85 12/15 26
government: w75 241-242; w75 273; g64 9/8 30; g64 12/8 29; g60 9/8 16; g55 3/22 5-6; w53 708; rm 315-318; g48 6/22 4-8; g40 10/2 20; w38 277; g37 7/14 648-649
growth of Soviet power: g75 7/22 5-7; g71 7/8 5-9
history: w75 241-242; g73 4/8 4-5, 8-11; fm 219; w66 280-281; bf 486-491, 547
horsemeat production: g62 3/8 30
icebreaker crosses Arctic: g78 9/8 29
illiteracy statistics: g61 7/22 21
industry: g71 7/8 8
Jehovah’s Witnesses: g81 9/8 29; g81 11/22 29; yb75 234-235; g73 4/8 17-18; yb71 314-316; yb70 311-313; yb69 280-282; yb68 280-282; yb67 313-315; g67 1/22 6-8; w66 518; yb66 283-285; w65 529-530; yb65 265-268; yb64 282-284; yb63 289-296, 298-307, 309-310; w62 215; ns 367; g61 1/8 30
Bukovsky’s (Vladimir) comment on persecution of: w83 8/1 12
growth: g81 6/8 30
meetings in prisons (quote): g76 9/22 31
misrepresented by news media: g60 5/22 8-12; w59 374-375; jp 280-281; g59 7/22 29; g58 5/22 12
persecution: w82 9/1 27; g79 11/22 30; g77 1/8 29; g76 5/22 29; g73 5/22 29; yb70 311-313; g69 9/8 15; w68 176-177; g64 6/22 10, 12; g64 7/8 9; g64 9/22 30; bf 494, 538-539; yb63 306-307; g63 2/8 29; w62 711, 734; yb62 282-284; w61 658; yb61 284-286; g61 4/8 31; g60 5/22 8-12; w59 374-375; jp 278-281; g58 5/22 12; g58 10/22 4; w57 245-248, 250-253, 439, 488; g57 4/22 24; w56 209-218, 233-236, 360; g56 6/22 8-12; w55 38-39; w50 254-255
petition to rulers: w60 91, 295; jp 279-280; yw 287; w57 249-254; g57 4/22 24
quote from book The Kremlin’s Human Dilemma: w76 345
service experiences: w57 245-249, 488; w56 212-214; g56 6/22 8-12; w46 47
Soviet diplomats in China receive a witness: g82 2/22 27
jogging: g80 12/22 5
Kamandorsky Islands: g41 8/6 11
Kara Kum desert: g74 12/8 31
“king of the north” (Da 11): w84 4/1 16-20; w81 7/15 5-7; w76 94; g74 2/22 22; yw 277-307
knitting: g76 11/22 29-30
League of Nations: bf 536; w60 59; yw 277; g40 10/2 31
Leningrad Codex: w80 9/15 9-11
living conditions: g60 9/22 29; g54 11/22 3; g53 1/22 12; g50 1/22 5-6; g50 5/22 4-6; g47 5/22 4-5; g46 5/8 30-31; g41 8/6 11; g39 5/3 24; g37 7/14 649-651; g37 10/6 27; g35 6/5 574; g34 10/24 41; g33 5/10 494; g33 9/13 781; g31 8/19 756-758
waiting in lines: g85 5/22 29; g84 12/8 29
living costs:
Moscow’s compared with New York’s: g79 6/22 31
longevity: g78 3/8 30; g72 3/22 30
centenarians: g76 1/8 30; g61 6/8 30; g61 7/22 29
man hides in dark bunker since World War II: g81 9/8 30
map of countries dominated: w60 121; yw 296
marriage and divorce: g58 10/22 4; g50 5/22 7
mathematical discovery:
computer to determine if there is a solution to a problem: g80 3/22 30
medicine: g68 6/8 19
artificial lubrication for aging joints: g77 11/8 31
“cool laser”: g79 5/8 30
laser treatment for glaucoma: g78 2/8 30
salt-mine asthma therapy: g77 11/22 29
underwater childbirth: g80 2/22 29
Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich: g79 3/8 16-22
Middle East activity: g74 2/22 21-22; g69 1/22 5
military spending: g62 5/8 31
military strength: w77 263; g77 1/22 30; w76 459; g74 11/8 3-5; g72 10/8 10; g71 7/8 6-8; g70 8/22 30; g70 11/8 30; g65 12/22 30; g63 12/22 30; g62 1/22 29; g61 7/8 6; g61 9/8 29; w60 122; yw 293; g39 8/23 25; g36 9/9 791; g31 10/28 44
military juggernaut driving relentlessly toward global domination (quote): w80 7/1 3
nuclear missiles: w75 487
nuclear weapons: w82 5/1 8
moral breakdown: g75 1/8 5; g75 8/22 30-31; g74 1/22 31; g70 1/22 9; g69 10/22 29; g65 1/8 30; g65 10/22 30; g65 12/22 29; g63 3/22 30
crime: g80 1/22 31; g74 2/22 29-30
juvenile delinquency: g60 4/22 6; g59 12/22 14; g31 3/18 393
youth gangs: g79 8/22 30
Moscow: g65 1/22 30; bf 488-491, 494; g60 9/22 29; g44 11/22 9
number of churches compared to number in 1917: g79 7/22 30
subway fare: g81 1/8 31
Moscow Circus: g77 11/8 31
museums: g83 6/22 16
Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism: w80 9/15 9
navy: w81 7/15 7; w76 459
nuclear icebreaker reaches North Pole: g77 11/8 30
oil: g81 6/8 10; g75 7/22 30; g74 1/8 7-8; g74 2/22 17, 21-22
pipelines: g77 12/8 30; g64 10/22 30; g62 9/22 29
production: g81 1/22 30
Peace March ’82: g83 1/8 7
peace prize: g64 6/22 30
pesticides: g70 7/8 30
polar bear from Alaska strays into: g78 3/8 29-30
political aims: bf 535-536; g63 4/8 29; g63 12/22 30; g61 6/22 29; w60 59, 123-124, 155; g60 9/8 16-19; yw 278, 296-297, 302-303; g58 10/8 17-19; w57 260; g54 11/22 7; g51 4/8 6-8; g35 9/11 798
pollution:
Arctic, The: g85 1/22 30
popularity of newspapers and magazines: g81 8/22 29
population: g80 12/22 30; g76 12/8 29; g70 6/22 29; g65 8/22 30; g63 6/8 10; g61 2/22 31
Jewish: g61 6/8 30; g57 5/22 20
pregnant single girls urged to have their babies: g81 4/8 31
reclaiming desert land: g77 7/8 29-30
recognition of its post-World War II frontiers: g75 11/8 4
relations with:
China: w79 8/1 3; g75 11/8 4-5; g64 4/8 30; g63 3/8 29; g63 4/8 29; g63 9/8 30-31; g63 10/22 9; g63 12/22 30
United States: g84 9/8 30; g74 4/8 5; g72 10/8 5-7, 29
religion: g84 1/8 4; g80 3/8 29; g77 8/8 29; g76 5/22 29; g76 9/22 31; g75 4/8 31; g75 9/8 30; g74 2/8 31; w73 707-708; g73 4/8 4-19; g69 12/8 30; g69 12/22 30; w68 646; g68 1/22 5; g68 5/22 31; g67 1/22 5-8; g67 10/8 30; w66 280-282; g65 6/22 30; g65 7/8 9-11; g64 3/8 5-8; g64 5/22 29; g64 6/22 9-12; g64 7/8 5-9; w63 694; bf 486-494; g63 2/22 29; g63 5/22 5, 29-30; w60 120-122; w58 611-612; yw 289-292; g58 10/22 3-4; g55 3/22 6; w53 707; w52 195-196; rm 316-318; w50 439; g50 5/22 6-7; g50 7/8 17-18; w48 12; g46 1/2 23-24; g46 4/10 8-9; g45 8/15 4-8; g42 2/4 19; lt-2-30 112; g30 5/28 565
ban on speaking about “end of the world”: g77 1/8 29
number of churches in Moscow compared to number in 1917: g79 7/22 30
primitive level of spiritual life of some people (quote): g79 10/8 31
survey as to people with no religion: g79 10/8 31
today contrasted with the period before the Russian Revolution: g79 4/22 29
Vladimir I’s “Christianizing” of Russian people: w85 8/1 3
rescue of ice-trapped beluga whales: g85 6/22 29
return of giant sturgeon: g77 4/22 30
revolution, 1917: g64 7/8 6; bf 489
riots: g64 2/8 29
rulers: w75 241-242; g67 8/8 29; g65 7/8 9; g64 6/22 9; g64 7/8 5-6; bf 489; g60 12/8 23-26; g56 7/8 3-4; g55 3/22 6; rm 318; w50 439; g45 1/31 9; g40 3/6 25
Russian Orthodox Church: w85 8/1 3
war and political support: g78 9/22 29
satellites:
Cosmos 954: g78 4/22 29
search-and-rescue system: g83 2/8 30
used for military purposes: g81 10/8 31; g64 7/22 30
schools: g79 11/22 4
science: g75 4/8 31; g74 10/22 31; w60 122-123, 155; g60 10/22 29; yw 292-294, 303; g58 3/22 16; g46 4/10 7-8
percentage on war work: w77 427; g76 4/8 30
secret police: w56 213-217; g50 1/22 7-8; g50 5/22 4-5
shopping: g83 6/22 16
lines: g85 5/22 29; g84 12/8 29
super shopping mall: g79 1/8 31
Siberia:
baby mammoth: g79 3/22 29; g77 11/22 30
frozen mammoths: ce 203; w79 8/15 30
subway: g77 12/22 30
train from, to Europe: g77 11/8 21
Trans-Siberian railway: g76 4/8 30
ski expedition to North Pole: g79 8/22 30
slave labor: w57 245-249, 488; w56 212-214, 233-236; g56 6/22 8-12; g50 5/22 4
smoking: g73 1/8 31
bans: g76 9/8 29; g76 11/22 30-31
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander:
comment on atheism: g84 1/8 12-13
comment on cause of crime: w84 10/15 4
space achievements: g83 12/8 29; g79 1/22 29; g79 6/22 30; g73 5/22 3-4, 9-12, 30; g73 8/8 30; g71 11/22 6, 8; g70 8/8 29; g68 11/22 29; g67 12/8 29; g66 3/22 29; g66 4/8 29; g66 4/22 31; g66 5/22 29; g66 7/8 12, 14-15; g65 5/8 31; g65 9/8 29; g64 7/22 30; g64 11/22 29; g64 12/8 30; g63 8/8 31; g62 9/22 30-31; g61 3/22 31; g61 4/8 29; g61 5/22 30-31; g61 9/22 29
Venus: g82 12/22 29-30; g79 3/22 29
sports: g72 12/8 30
spying: g64 7/8 31; g62 10/22 30
Stalin: w75 241-242; g73 4/8 9
steel production:
compared with United States: g80 6/22 31
submarines:
gardens on nuclear submarines: g78 5/8 30
supersonic plane: g78 1/22 13, 15
surgery:
eyes: g85 10/22 30
for nearsightedness: g80 5/22 31
unborn embryo of man’s twin found in his chest: g80 11/8 29
without blood transfusion: g79 7/8 29-30
teenage demand for used jeans: g76 8/8 31
telephones:
fairy tales by phone: g77 4/22 31
number per 100 people: g82 1/8 31
telescopes:
largest: g78 10/22 31; g77 1/22 29
television:
number of sets compared with telephones and autos: g76 12/8 29
territory controlled: g62 6/8 8-10
tourism: g83 6/22 15-17; g64 12/8 31
treaties and pacts: w60 58-59; yw 276-277; w54 486
test-ban treaty: g64 8/22 14; g63 10/22 8
Ukraine:
livestock fed bread: g82 6/22 30
United Nations: w74 548
United States:
foreign aid from: g46 4/10 6; g45 6/20 19; g45 11/21 12
use of ants to find water: g75 4/8 30
visit by C. T. Russell: jp 32
volcanoes: g76 12/22 29
Vulcan, West Virginia:
request for foreign aid from: g78 3/8 30
water dowsing: g79 6/22 17-19
weapons:
cost per person: g75 10/22 30
exported throughout world: g84 12/8 29
nuclear: w80 1/15 7
weather: g75 1/22 29
weddings: g83 2/22 30
women: g77 2/8 29; g77 9/8 29; g74 7/8 31
doctors: g75 4/8 31; g75 11/22 31
percentage employed: g77 2/8 30; g76 2/8 31
World War II: w60 59; yw 277-278; g47 9/8 6; g46 3/13 27; g46 4/10 3-4; g46 6/19 29; g45 1/31 3-9; g45 11/21 12; g43 7/21 18; g41 11/12 18; g39 8/23 18
youths: g75 1/8 5; g69 8/8 31
Quotations
assumption that we are the only civilization in the whole universe is now much more valid: g81 2/22 10
even in prison, Jehovah’s Witnesses meet: g76 9/22 31
mammoths quickly frozen after death: w79 8/15 30
military juggernaut driving relentlessly toward global domination: w80 7/1 3
our sun is most likely a rare exception in the stellar world: g81 2/22 9
primitive level of spiritual life of some people: g79 10/8 31