Fighting the Devil
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This is Sviatoslav's story:
I am well aware of what religious persecution is. I was born into a Christian home in Belarus in what was known as the Soviet Union. My great-grandfather gave out Bibles and literature on the street. The KGB tried to silence him, but to no avail, so he was sentenced to 25 years in a Siberian labor camp for his faith.
My grandparents were endlessly threatened to be imprisoned or killed. On one occasion my grandfather had a gun pointed to his head by a Nazi officer who sat him into a carriage and gave him 100 yards to rebuke his faith or be shot in front of his children. My grandfather would never abandon his fai...
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