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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Amazing how powerful fear of the outside world can be. Which, if you think about it, that's exactly what it was. They feared religious persecution, so they hid themselves away...(And who can blame them?). Just as the Japanese soldiers, that Ice mentioned, feared being discovered by enemy soldiers.
Which makes the comparison with the Amish kind of awkward. The eschew modern technology and modern ways........but they don't hide.
Regard,
Dave
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The Old Believers don't hide any more either. They haven't for a very long time. The family in the story hid out at a time when Stalin was trying to wipe out the influence of religion.
These people fled for their lives. Had they not been so isolated, they would have learned decades earlier that Stalin was dead and they were no longer being hunted.
Religion has really reasserted itself in Russia. Hell, three performance artists, "Pussy Riot", just got tossed in prison for "hooliganism". Their crime was conducting a disrespectful performance in a church.
John