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Grand Officer of the Order of the Three Stars John Rozkalns, Soviet freedom fighter - in 1983 he was named on the check "particularly dangerous state criminals" and the court sentenced to severe penalties - eight years of strict regime imprisonment in a special KGB camp. It was intended that from there he will return either physically and mentally completely broken, or never return.
But God had decreed otherwise, the assurance of its release John had already won the first shaking time you during Chekists asked or allowed to read the Bible, smithfield marketplace and received permission Scripture opened the place where Peter is thrown into jail, but then comes an angel, and he shall be released .
After four back in the Perm region in the camp spent years waiting for him on the same day it was announced about the release. After returning to Latvian, he joined a group Helsinki - 86 operation, forced removal to the west. In 2000, the family returned to Rožkalnu Latvian.
Gunta John had read before these dramatic smithfield marketplace events, the day of the arrest, they were already a year and five days married, but her twins were only three months. For a dad again see his little daughter and son, Gunta court had arrived with both, now ten months old - Rita and Mark.
Rita and Markus smithfield marketplace grew up in Germany was born youngest daughter Christina, but Gunta and John Rožkalni 15 April to celebrate sudrabkāzas. They have always supported each other - both celebration and grief, and as Gunta say also at critical times did it out of free will and has always been John's side.
My conversation smithfield marketplace with John and Gunta lasted for several hours. Unusual life that can not be tell some pages. Several times, when John started finishes with the words on it could be a lot of talk, such as solitary confinement cell in the camp, there to meet people and so on. I suggest - you should write a book! - Maybe ever!
John Rožkans: - First repression experienced in elementary school, I was not Little Octobrist, not a pioneer, and my father was a preacher Vecpiebalgas church, so I occasionally wood barn after school hours led to saw wood, but there was a big crack through smithfield marketplace which the wolf gang drafts, and so I got pulmonary tuberculosis. But all these repressions was also a silver lining because it opens new doors. I got tuberculosis sanatorium in Cesis special Forest School, which in Soviet times was much more positive than other schools.
Gunta: - My childhood is entirely different than John, because I grew up in a family of eight children as the oldest child. My father Edmunds Cirvele your ten best years of life were spent in exile in the Arkhangelsk region. Also, we were not at Little smithfield marketplace Octobrist no, not a pioneer. We have been in the family had acquired immunity against communism, because my parents at the beginning of his life had enjoyed a free Latvian breezes.
Then I joined the Christian youth in equities. With its vēlēkajiem comrades Olaf and Paul Brūvere was familiar from childhood - they were my peers and drove with us during the holidays, we were about to snow forts, pikojāmies summers arriving at Ineša lake. Of course, at that time did not talk about politics, but trust in one another had already got. First thought to spread the Christian Gospel - we had an evangelistic group, I play the guitar, we drove all over the UK, including Latgale, to young people, especially those who drank. At the time, it was more than unusual for a group of young people openly sings and tells the story of God. Often, home meetings were gathered in the neighboring children, young people, students. Soon we felt that we begin to follow the check. Once the whole group of 15 August went to a Catholic celebration in Aglona there after misēm the courtyard sang Christian songs. Also, there was something unusual that a group of young people smithfield marketplace openly sing. At the end of this led to an international conflict. Churches kārtībsargi tore out of the hands of guitar and asked what you're doing here? When already slowly walked away, saw that come militia machines - all of us were arrested and interrogated until dawn. Interrogated all: where, what workplace, school, etc. One by one put into the field and said, here is categorically prohibited to sing and talk! Later it turned out, the Vatican Moscow had submitted a note to make every effort to cease harassment of the church festival. Then in Riga Catholic young people, which we also had contacts on this step the Vatican apologized. And so, we gradually began confrontation with the then regime.
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- Yes, at the beginning of evangelization was just a thought. As people everywhere nodzērās was said that total despair, we SAPR