SOVIET UNION (and Daughter Countries)
(See also Communism; Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov]; Marx, Karl; Russia; Russian Orthodox Church)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
abortion: g87 4/8 4
Aral Sea disappearing: g92 8/22 24-27; g91 9/8 31; g89 1/8 29
aviation:
hydrogen-powered airliner: g89 4/22 31
Berlin blockade (1948-1949): g87 5/22 12-13
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster (1986): g01 2/8 6; g97 4/22 12-15; g86 8/8 31
amount of radiation: re 175
Chernobyl to be razed: g89 3/22 29
comments by deputy chief nuclear engineer: w94 8/1 4
contaminated reindeer to be killed: g87 1/22 29
effect of wind shift: g88 5/8 7
European Alps: g99 1/8 29
long-term effects: g01 8/8 29; g00 12/22 29; g88 1/8 30; g88 5/8 4, 6
public response: g86 9/8 30
radiation effects: g90 3/8 28; g89 11/22 29; g86 8/22 29
visit after 20 years: g 4/06 14-16
crime:
increase in 1989: g89 9/22 29
divorce: w88 11/1 20; g86 7/8 10
drugs: w89 11/15 7; g88 1/22 29; g88 12/8 4; g87 2/22 29
earthquake in Armenia (1988): w89 3/15 7
ethnic strife: g93 12/22 3-4
families: g86 1/8 29-30
fire in library of the National Academy of Sciences: g88 7/22 30
government: g96 7/8 14
arms-reduction treaties with U.S.: g04 3/8 3-5; w92 3/1 4; g89 1/22 29; w88 6/15 27; g88 5/8 29; g88 8/22 3; g88 9/22 29
Bolshevik Revolution: g90 11/8 20
book Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev: w88 10/15 4
comments on world peace by delegates to Inter-Parliamentary Union (1986): w86 10/1 15
disarmament proposals: g88 8/22 3; g87 4/22 6; g86 5/22 7-8
fall of Communism: g99 12/8 6-7; g96 7/8 12-15
glasnost (openness): g96 7/8 12-13; g91 1/8 4; g90 11/8 20
Gorbachev, Mikhail: g96 7/8 12-15; w91 1/1 3; w91 4/15 3; w91 7/15 3; g91 1/8 11; g90 11/8 20-21
nonaggression pact with Hitler: g87 4/8 19
nonintervention policy: g91 1/8 4
perestroika (restructuring): g96 7/8 13; g91 1/8 4; g90 11/8 20-21
republics secede (1991): g01 4/22 3; g00 2/22 22; g96 7/22 12
Great Soviet Encyclopedia:
Bible authenticity: w89 7/1 4-5
health and disease:
AIDS: g90 2/8 28
impressions of medical student: g88 6/8 15-16
“king of the north” (Da 11): w20.05 6-7; dp 270, 272; w87 7/1 13-15
law:
freedom of religion (1990): g91 1/8 11-12
Leningrad:
Codex Leningrad B 19A: it-2 315; w05 7/15 12-13
Codex Sinaiticus (three leaves): it-2 317
Petersburg Codex of the Latter Prophets: it-1 239; it-2 315; w05 7/15 12; si 311
longevity:
Abkhaz Republic: g88 2/8 31
maps:
route of exile to Siberia: g99 2/22 12-13
marriage: g86 7/8 10
medicine:
all citizens to receive pocket-size medical history: g88 5/8 30
childbirth in water: g89 6/22 29
danger of smoking during pregnancy: g89 7/8 4-5
evidence that rock music is addictive: g87 10/22 30
magnetic rings replace stitches in intestinal surgery: g87 9/8 30
osteoreflexology: g87 9/22 30
military:
arms race: g90 10/22 28; g86 5/22 5-6
tanks to be destroyed: g91 4/22 28
weapons sales: g89 11/22 29; g86 7/22 27
nuclear energy:
plutonium plant disaster: g93 10/8 29
pollution: g88 5/8 4
population:
shift to cities: g86 1/8 29-30
prisons:
solitary confinement: yb08 122
religion: g00 2/22 23
agreement in four republics to stop Witnesses and others: g96 5/22 28
Bible availability: g90 3/22 28
Bibles imported: g89 3/8 30; g89 4/8 29; g89 12/8 28
Christmas and New Year’s Day: w05 12/15 4-5
collaboration with government: g01 4/22 9-11
Communist view: yb08 77-78, 81-82
law on freedom of (1990): g91 1/8 11-12
“prediplomatic relations” with Vatican: g90 10/8 29
promise of more freedom: g90 10/8 29; g89 3/8 30
reintroduction of: g90 11/8 20
revival: g01 4/22 13; g90 3/22 28
Russian Orthodox Church: g01 4/22 3-4, 9-11; g00 2/22 23; g95 1/8 25; w93 11/1 16; g87 4/22 6
suppression (1922 onward): g01 4/22 3-12
World War II: yb08 86-87
science:
earthquake prediction: g87 2/8 30
lightning a superior fertilizer: g86 9/22 29
Siberia:
frozen mammoths: it-1 328; g 6/10 30; g 3/07 23
triton (aquatic salamander) thawed alive: g87 11/22 29-30
soccer violence: g89 4/22 3
space achievements: g92 9/8 5, 8
cosmonaut returns after USSR dissolved: g92 8/22 28
effects of 326 days in space: g88 6/8 29
Mars: g99 11/22 16-17
photos of Halley’s comet: g86 6/8 29
tobacco sales from U.S.: g91 1/8 29
tunnel-boring machine: g89 7/8 28
war:
Chechnya (1994): g96 7/22 12
whales rescued: g89 3/8 30
women:
improved role: w87 8/15 3
World War II: g87 4/8 19-20; g87 5/22 12-13
invasion by Germany: yb08 86-87; g01 4/22 3-4; g87 4/22 16-17
invasion of Finland: yb90 165, 174
Jehovah’s Witnesses
attempt by authorities to divide: yb08 134-135, 138-139, 142-144; yb04 107, 110-112, 115-116; yb02 192-197, 206-207, 209-210
letter allegedly from world headquarters: w24.07 12-13
books discussing:
Christian Religion in the Soviet Union: g87 4/22 10
Kirik keset küla (The Church in the Middle of the Village): w05 7/15 32
Religion in the Soviet Union: g91 12/22 4-6
The Kremlin’s Human Dilemma: g91 12/22 5
The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History: g87 4/22 10
The Sword and the Shield: yb04 107, 112
The Truths About Jehovah’s Witnesses: g91 12/22 6
Women in Soviet Prisons: g91 12/22 6
clergy opposition: yb08 89
congregations: yb08 106, 133-135, 142-146, 149; w93 12/15 21
conventions: yb11 245; g00 2/22 22; yb95 255; w94 1/1 8-9; yb94 8-9; w93 1/1 27-28; jv 507; g93 12/22 6-7, 10-13; w92 1/15 26; w92 3/1 11; yb92 22-23, 254-255; g92 2/22 31-32; g92 12/22 27; g91 12/22 3, 7, 13-14, 16-17
attended elsewhere: yb94 248; w91 7/15 11; yb91 23-24; g91 1/8 12-13, 22-23
attended in Poland: yb08 109, 197-199; w99 3/1 29; w98 3/1 10-11; yb90 15-17; g89 12/22 20-22, 25
quotes: g92 2/22 31; g91 12/22 8-9, 11
Country Committee: w15 10/15 16; yb08 134-135, 143-144; yb04 112; yb02 153, 194-196, 224-225, 235
country servants: yb02 156, 158-159, 173, 194, 196, 224
courts:
trial for possessing Bible (1958): yb08 120-121, 123
trial of brothers printing secretly (1960): yb08 136-138
early witnessing: g01 4/22 13; jv 508; w91 7/15 8
effect of deportation within Soviet Union: bt 221; kr 93; yb08 106; w86 2/1 13-14
field ministry: w19.07 11
growth: w17.08 16; g01 4/22 5; g99 4/22 25; yb98 30; g98 2/22 17; yb96 51; yb94 64; w93 1/1 26; w93 12/15 21; jv 508; w91 7/15 8-9; g91 12/22 4-6
effect of World War II: yb08 86; jv 551
legal matters:
charter: w91 7/15 11
legal recognition (1991): kr 158; w11 7/15 4; yb08 198, 202-203, 230; g01 4/22 12; g00 2/22 28; w99 3/1 29; jv 505, 697; w91 7/15 8, 10-11; g91 6/22 28
legal recognition denied (1949): yb08 94-95, 98, 189; yb02 164-165; g00 10/8 21-22
petition to Bulganin (1956-1957): g99 4/22 23-24; yb93 121
petition to Council of Ministers (1956-1957): yb08 111, 229
letters from N. H. Knorr: yb08 138, 143; yb02 196-197, 206-207
love for Bible: g00 2/22 22
meetings: yb08 83, 144-145, 197; g91 12/22 6
in penal camps: lfs article 1; yb08 123-124, 126, 156-157, 166, 170-171
Memorial: yb08 197; g00 9/22 22; jv 117; yb92 6
in penal camps: w15 2/15 32; yb08 184-187
modern history: yb08 77-203; g00 2/22 22; w91 7/15 8-11
neutrality:
during prison revolts: yb08 100, 140; w07 3/1 8-12
during World War II: w15 10/15 14-15; yb08 87, 188-189
newspaper comments: g91 12/22 4, 11
parents instill truth: yb08 111, 114-115, 118-120
persecution: yb08 89-94, 96-103, 105-107, 110-111, 114-115, 118-121, 123, 126-127; g04 10/22 13-14; g01 4/22 5-9, 11-12; w99 3/1 24-29; g99 2/22 11-16; g98 6/22 21-24; g93 5/8 5-7; g91 12/22 5-6; g88 8/8 10
exile in Siberia: w17.08 13; w12 12/1 27-29; yb11 196-198, 200, 203-208, 211-212, 214, 244; yb08 68, 101-103, 105-109, 164-166, 189, 229; yb07 189-191; w05 7/15 32; g05 4/22 20-21, 23; g05 12/22 13-14; yb04 81, 95-99, 102-103, 107; g04 10/22 12; yb02 166, 169-174, 176, 219-221; g01 4/22 6-9; g00 9/22 22-23; g00 10/8 22-24; g99 4/22 21-24
imprisonment and camps: w17.08 14; w15 10/15 16-17; yb08 87, 91, 94, 98-101, 122-128, 138-139, 141-142, 147, 152-163, 166, 168-183, 186-195, 200-201, 228-229; g 4/06 23-24; w05 9/1 9; yb02 228, 230; g00 9/22 21-22; w91 7/15 9
infiltration: yb08 91, 94, 133-134
KGB officer tries to force sex: w17.08 14
lectures: yb08 127-130, 166
misrepresentation: yb04 103, 107; g01 4/22 8
perestroika eases: yb08 197-198
pressure from KGB: yb02 219, 221-224
surveillance: yb08 133
persons:
Andronic, Iov: yb08 139, 142, 182, 190, 193
Babijchuk, Ilya: yb08 95
Beloshitskaya, Magdalina: yb08 102-103, 106, 164-165
Burak, Stanislav: yb02 156, 158-159
Chumak, Mykhailo: yb08 95
Dasevich, Michael: yb08 202; yb02 153, 224
Dubovinsky, Nikolai: w15 10/15 14-17
Gaburyak, Aleksey: yb08 142-144
Garnovskaya, Valentina: w19.07 6; w09 4/15 9-10; yb08 186-187, 191-192
Gatilov, Grigory: yb08 152-153
Grogul, Ananii (Anany): yb08 202; g93 5/8 5-7
Gutshmidt, Viktor and Polina: yb08 107, 110-111, 127-132, 172, 174-176, 180-181, 193-194; g04 8/22 9-10
Gutsulyak, Nikolai: yb08 194-195; w07 3/1 8-12
Kalibaba, Nikolai: yb08 106, 108-109, 166, 170-172
Kalin, Fyodor: g01 4/22 7
Kalin, Vasily: g99 4/22 20-25
Kaptola, Yurii: yb07 197-198; w05 9/1 8-12
Klimko, Ivan: yb08 172-174, 182, 187, 190
Kostylyev, Semyon and Daria: yb08 114-115, 118-119
Kozyreva, Zinaida: yb08 153-161
Krivokulsky, Pyotr and Regina: yb08 89-91, 94-99
Krylov, Ivan: yb08 100-101
Kryltsov, Boris: yb08 126-127
Kukushkina, Regina: yb08 177-178
Levitsky, Stepan: yb08 149, 151-152
Livy, Dmitry: yb08 188-189, 202
Livy, Gavriil: yb08 106-107
Melnik, Anatoly and Lidiya: w19.08 6; g04 10/22 11-15
Nepochatov, Aleksey and Maria: yb08 168-169, 173, 179
Nikolaevsky, Vladimir: yb08 140-141
Partsey, Pyotr and Yekaterina: yb08 112-113
Pashkovsky, Ivan: yb08 134, 143
Platon, Efrem: g05 12/22 13-15
Porchulyan, Georgiy: lfs article 1
Pyatokha, Mykola: yb08 95, 193
Rybak, Yevgenia: yb08 104-105
Savchuk, Vasily: yb08 87-88
Savitskii (Savitsky), Mikhail Vasilevich: yb08 138, 142-143; w99 3/1 24-29
Savitsky, Stakh: yb08 145-146, 149
Sevryugina, Olga: yb08 91, 94-95
Sivulsky, Grigory: yb08 133, 196-197
Sivulsky, Pavel and Maria: w17.08 13-16; yb08 200-201
Skripchuk, Konstantin: yb08 162-163
Starukhin, Danyil: yb08 83; yb02 139-140
Timchuk, Grigory: yb08 137-138
Tokar, Petro: yb02 156
Toom, Lembit and Ella (Kikas): yb11 205, 208; g99 2/22 10-16
Tsiboulski, Marian: g98 6/22 20-24
Vardja, Villem: w09 8/15 16-17
Vishnyak, Nadezhda: yb08 120-121, 123
Warter, Eduard and Ruth: w87 3/1 21-24
Yarosh, Nadezhda Alekseyevna: brfi 11; yb08 147-148
Young, George: yb08 82, 228; yb02 139; g01 4/22 13; w00 7/1 25-26
Ziatek, Pavlo: yb02 156, 158, 194-197
places:
Moscow: yb08 198, 202-203; w93 12/15 21; yb90 159
Siberia: yb11 196-198, 200, 203-208, 211-212, 214, 244; yb08 101-103, 105-109; yb07 190-191; g01 4/22 6-9; w99 3/1 24, 27-28; g99 4/22 22-25; w91 1/1 13; w91 7/15 10; g91 12/22 5-6; yb89 136-137; w87 3/1 24
Presiding Committee: w91 7/15 11
printing:
under ban: yb08 113, 136-139, 145-146, 149-152
publications:
after World War II: w15 10/15 15-16; yb08 89-90; yb02 156, 158
appreciation by non-Witnesses: g95 6/8 15-16
book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained: yb08 149, 151
booklet After Armageddon—God’s New World: yb08 121
booklet Freedom for the Peoples: w00 7/1 26
booklet Where Are the Dead?: w00 7/1 26
book The Divine Plan of the Ages: w15 10/15 14
book The Harp of God: w15 10/15 14
couriers: yb08 148
during World War II: yb08 87-88
first receipts by mail permitted: yb08 197
first shipment: yb92 50-51
hidden at home: w09 8/15 16-17; yb08 196-197
hidden in penal camps: yb08 109, 170, 172-173, 183, 187, 190-192
languages: g00 12/22 6
miniature copies: yb08 161, 173, 175
reproduced in penal camps: yb08 171-174, 182-183
smuggled into penal camps: w17.08 14; yb08 124-125, 160-161, 171, 189; g01 4/22 11-12; w99 3/1 28; g91 12/22 6
relief from abroad (1991-1992): yb02 240-241; w93 1/1 27; w93 2/1 20-24; yb93 11-13, 15
service experiences: w93 1/1 27; w91 7/15 10
camp commander’s wife: yb08 194-195
elderly man in penal camp: yb08 99
letters thrown over fence: yb08 91, 94-95
traveling overseers: g04 10/22 14-15
video Faithful Under Trials—Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Soviet Union: w05 3/1 8-9
visits by—
Henschel, M. G.: yb11 225, 227; yb08 198, 202; w91 7/15 11
Jaracz, T.: yb11 225, 227; yb08 198, 202; w91 7/15 11