Faithful Under Trials—Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Soviet Union

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. Why did the powerful Soviet government regard the Witnesses as a threat? How did they survive and prosper despite decades of unrelenting persecution? Historians and eyewitnesses recount the enlightening and inspiring story of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the former Soviet Union.