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>> Hello, and thank you for
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choosing to join us here today
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on It Is Written Canada.
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We are here in the home of
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Yevgeniy Vasmout and you are
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in for a real treat.
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He lives here in Abbotsford,
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British Columbia and he has an
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amazing story.
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I was just looking at this
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verse in the Bible and it's
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found in Psalm 118, verse 8
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and it says...
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And so Yevgeniy, thank you for
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joining us here on
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It Is Written Canada.
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>> Thanks, no problem.
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>> You grew up as a Christian,
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keeping the Sabbath
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and you are now
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asked to go to the military.
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>> Yes.
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>> You were 18 years old
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and it's a communist
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military system...
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>> Yes.
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>> And you have to go.
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>> Yeah, when you're 18 years
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old it's mandatory,
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you have to go
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and they check your health.
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If you're in good health,
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they take you to the army
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for two years.
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>> OK...OK.
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So you went into the army
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and how were your papers?
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>> The lady was sitting there
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I remember the lady was
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second from the last,
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you know, and...
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she looked through--
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she asked me a question and
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then she gave it to the
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[Russian term]
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the last one was an officer,
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he was a high ranking officer
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because at that time I did
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know what that means,
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you know, there were stars.
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She said, "It's a really nice"
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"paper," she told him.
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And he took it and I say,
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"Here's my chance."
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"Here I have to tell them"
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"who I am." You know?
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And I say, "I would like to"
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"tell you something."
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And he looked at me and said,
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"What is it?
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And I say, "I am a believer."
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And he says,
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"What do you mean?"
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I say, "I believe in God,"
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"and I am a believer."
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"And what is your belief?"
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And I said, "We don't work on"
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"Saturday, we don't do"
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"anything on Saturday."
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"It's a holy day."
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He-- I still remember,
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he brought out a pencil,
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not a pen, a red pencil,
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and he put a red line
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across that first page and he
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put "number 213."
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I don't know what that meant.
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And...
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I took it, I looked like this,
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I said, "What is it?"
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And I ended up in Siberia,
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maybe that was the number of
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Siberia, I don't know.
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It was in Siberia,
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in Altai, Siberia.
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>> So you're there.
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What was it like in Siberia
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for you?
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>> Oh...
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See, one day we came to the
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base, the army base.
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First thing, I went to the
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officer and I told him
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who I am.
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And he said, "This will be a"
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"really big problem because"
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"I'm communist," he said,
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"and I do everything."
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"Why can't you..."
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"work on Saturday?"
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And I told him,
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"I have a few things."
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"First of all, I am not"
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"touching an AK-47..."
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Because in the army you have
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to shoot.
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And he said, "Why?"
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I said, "I love my country,"
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"I will stand up for"
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"my country,"
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"but I cannot kill."
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"Because if I have to protect"
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"or something, I have to kill"
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"with the automatic gun and"
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"that's why it's--"
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"I am not touching it."
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"And I don't do anything on"
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"Sabbath."
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And it starts.
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My problem starts from day
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number one it started,
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you know.
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And I told you only two
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things, but the third one,
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it was everything was pork.
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>> OK...
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>> Everything was pork.
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>> And you don't eat pork.
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>> I don't eat pork, no.
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And I decided to
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keep those three things:
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Keep the Sabbath,
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don't touch the rifle,
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and don't eat pork.
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>> Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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So what did you eat?
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>> I don't know, lot's of
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people don't believe me, but
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I don't know.
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In the morning there's tea,
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twenty grams of butter,
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and two pieces of bread.
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That was all my...
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>> Two pieces of bread and
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some tea?
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>> Yes.
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>> And a little bit of butter.
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>> So what did they do about
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you not wanting to touch
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an AK-47?
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>> See, when you come
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to the army,
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there's one month of training.
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Each army, there's a
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one-month training.
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And there the training was
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Saturday, they were training,
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yeah, it was a Saturday,
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and I did nothing,
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I stood there.
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They were shooting there and
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they were practicing with
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AK-47's and he called me,
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like, one day I was standing
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over to the side
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and he asked me,
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"Come here." You know...
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I came, he said, "Can you"
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"take those five AK--,"
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I remember, five AK-47's,
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"Can you take them to the"
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"safe, to that office there?"
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It was a different building.
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I say, "No,"
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"I can't touch them."
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You know, and he said,
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"No, you have to."
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And I said, "No."
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And he grabbed--
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Because in the army, we wear
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a belt, you know, and...
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>> And he grabbed your belt.
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>> He grabbed my belt like
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this, he pulled me like this
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and he put all five on my neck
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with this with the...
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>> With the straps.
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>> Straps, yeah.
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>> So they were hanging with
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the strap here and then the
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five of them were hanging?
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>> Five of them, yeah.
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And he said, "Go."
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I said, "No,"
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"I'm not going."
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>> And he started to kick me
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and push me, you know,
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to that office.
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He pushed me there.
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And he went to the room,
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he pushed me to that room and
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there was a safe, he said,
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"Put them in the safe."
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I said, "No."
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And he left.
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He said, "You can stand 'til"
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"you die."
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[laughs]
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And I stood there for
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I don't know for how long.
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Then it was so hard I started
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losing it, you know, my feet
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and I started to get dizzy,
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you know, I thought,
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"One more minute"
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"and I will fall down."
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And I didn't know what to do.
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Then I grabbed everything and
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put it all, AK--
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there was a table, big table
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and then the safe was behind
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and I put them on the table,
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I turned around and left,
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I didn't put them in the safe.
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>> So you didn't have to
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touch them.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Wow. So you had a friend
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who was Muslim who was a part
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of this and he became a
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communist.
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>> Yes.
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>> Do you want to tell us
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about that?
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>> In our base there
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were five people,
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they took them to the office,
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the communist office to
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become communists.
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And one--
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After he told me that story,
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and he went there, his name
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was Rafael...
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they went to that office and
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he was the last one to get in.
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They asked him questions,
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same paperwork, you know.
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And then they asked him,
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the people there, they say,
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"Do you have a believer in"
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"your army base?"
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And he told me, "I stood there"
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"I didn't know what"
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"to say."
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"If I say yes, you might get"
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"in trouble." You know, or...
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>> And he doesn't want to get
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you in trouble.
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>> Yeah, because he's
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my friend.
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"If I say no," he said,
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"If I say no, I came to"
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"become a communist and the"
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"first day I'm lying."
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You know?
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And I said,
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"What did you say?"
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"I said, 'Yes.'
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'We do have one.'"
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And they asked what kind of--
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or what he's doing and--
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And they asked him,
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and he said, "He keeps the"
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"Sabbath and he doesn't work"
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"on Sabbath."
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That's all he said, you know.
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And he left and he came there
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the same day that he told me
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everything.
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Every year in April when the--
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We call the Subbotnik,
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it is on Sabbath, which
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all the people in Russia,
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they go and they work
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for free.
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And they called our boss,
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the big boss...
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he said,
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"They have a believer and"
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"he doesn't work on Sabbath."
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"Make him work."
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Because they command them to
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make him work.
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And one officer came to the
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room and I think they were
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looking for me
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and he came, he said,
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"What are you doing here?"
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I said, "I'm sitting"
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"because--"
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He said, "Why didn't you"
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"go to work?
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I say, "It's Sabbath."
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He said, "Why don't you work?"
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I said, "I can work Sunday,"
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I told him.
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He said "No, come."
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And we went there.
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He brought me to that big main
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officer that top guy...
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and he said, "Go to work."
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And I said, "I can't."
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See, I cannot tell them I
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don't want to because it's not
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like I don't want to,
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you know, but I say it because
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I can't, it means my religion
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doesn't allow me to do that.
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And he said, "No, go."
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I said, "Sorry, I can't."
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And he told my officer,
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"Can you command him?"
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And he put his hand like this
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and commanded
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and I said, "No."
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I don't know, it's hard to
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explain, see...
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when it's war time, if they
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command you and you say no,
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they shoot you,
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right on the spot.
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>> Wow!
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>> They're allowed to do that,
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right on the spot.
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But because it was not war,
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it's two years in army jail or
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six years in civilian jail.
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And then he called more
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soldiers which were there,
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there were special soldiers
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who were guarding the jail,
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there was a small jail and
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they were guarding there,
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you know, with their AK-47's,
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they called him and they came
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as a witness, you know, and he
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said, the other officer,
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"Can you command him?"
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And he commanded again,
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"I order you to go to work."
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And I say, "I'm so sorry,
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"I can't."
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And he said, that big boss,
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he said, "Five days, arrest."
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The jail was right in front.
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They took my belt out,
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they took them because they
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are not allowed in jail
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because lots of people,
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it's so difficult,
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it's so hard so they commit
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suicide, they hang themselves
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with the belt, you know...
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And they took everything,
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they brought me to the jail.
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The jail is a small room
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and there's just the floor,
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no chair, no bed, nothing.
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>> Oh, wow.
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>> And I sat on the floor,
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fifteen minutes later they
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called me, one guy came with
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an AK-47, he said,
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"The Big Boss is calling you."
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I came, he said,
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"What would you like to do?"
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"There is"
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"loading the garbage--"
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Because for winter time we
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have a big pile of garbage,
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you know.
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And I go and pray, you know,
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"God you have to help me."
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And he did exactly what I was
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thinking, you know.
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We came there, there were five
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people from a different floor,
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they were in our base,
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but from a different floor,
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and he came to them and he
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said, "You make him work--"
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Oh yeah, those five people,
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they got in jail because on
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Friday they were so drunk,
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on Friday, and they put them
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in the jail Friday night,
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it was Saturday morning.
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And he said, "If you make him"
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"work, as soon as you finish"
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"loading the garbage,"
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"you are free."
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"You don't have to sit five"
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"days in jail."
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And I knew already, you know
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what happ--
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And he turned around
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and he left, that officer.
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And there were three Muslim
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people and two were Russian,
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close to Moscow.
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And they put the shovels to
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the side and they came,
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standing around me and that
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one Muslim, he was small,
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he put up his sleeves
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like this, he was ready to
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show me--
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>> He was ready for a fight.
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>> Fight or...you know, and...
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And this officer when he left,
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he gave them all the power.
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He said, "Do whatever--"
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Like, he didn't say it,
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he said "Make him to work"
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"and after you are free."
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It means do whatever you want
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to him, but make him work.
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And he left.
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And this guy comes--
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He said, "Grab the shovel,"
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he told me.
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I said, "Guys, can I explain"
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"something to you?"
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And they stopped like this and
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I said, "That's why I'm here"
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"today, because I don't work"
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"on Saturday,"
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"I keep the Sabbath."
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And...
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If I would work,
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I wouldn't be here and that's
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why they put me in jail
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because I didn't go...
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And I look--
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It came to my mind right away,
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you know, like, three Muslims,
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you know, and they are--
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I love them, OK...
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and they keep Friday.
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And I told them,
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"See, Friday is your day."
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"You keep the Friday, I keep"
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"the Sabbath," I told them.
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And then I say,
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"You don't eat pork"
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"and I don't eat pork."
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And they loved that.
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You know, when you don't eat
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pork, you're like a brother to
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them, you know.
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The same guy, you know who was
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like this,
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did not say even one word.
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First, he grabbed his shovel,
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and started to shovel,
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load the garbage, you know.
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And when they were around me
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when I came, yeah, when I told
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them everything, they stood
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there for a while and I could
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feel it, I didn't see it,
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I could feel it,
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it was like there was an angel
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between them and me, you know,
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an angel, like...
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>> Just protecting you.
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>> Like protecting me.
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I think he said, "Hey, he's"
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"not yours, he's mine."
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Like, don't touch him or
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something, you know?
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And all five of them,
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they took their shovels and
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they started to load the
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garbage and I was so
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impressed, you know, I say,
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"God, thank you so much!"
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And I turned around and that
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officer who brought me to
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them, you know, that big-shot,
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that main one, he was looking
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behind the corner, what are
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they doing, you know?
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Then he saw they did
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nothing to me
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and he sent another guy with
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an AK-47 to bring me.
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And they brought me to jail
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and I was sitting in the jail
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all day on the floor praying
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and...
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>> So you didn't work?
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>> No. No, I didn't work.
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>> Wow, God answered your
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prayers and protected you
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because you knew what the
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officer's plan was and you
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prayed right from the
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beginning when you knew.
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Wow!
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>> So you met a high official,
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or a lady, she wasn't really
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an official, she was more
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just a contract worker
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for the military.
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>> Yes, she was the manager of
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the bookkeepers and I think
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they did all the payroll for
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the officers.
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And she--
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I was on the side and the road
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was here and she was walking
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to work and she usually
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started at 9:00 and she was
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walking around 8:00 and she
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goes like this, she turns
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around and she comes to me.
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And the guy with the AK-47
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beside me usually is not
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allowed to talk, but
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they knew her, she is like,
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she is a worker here and maybe
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she was the wife of one
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officer, I don't know,
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but I don't think so,
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she was similar.
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And she came to me, she said,
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"You know, I've been watching"
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"you for a long time and you"
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"are different," she said.
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"You are different."
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I don't know what she saw
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different, but their office
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was there and she was sitting
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by the window.
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Maybe they were smoking,
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I wasn't smoking and maybe
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they did some crazy stuff,
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I don't know, I didn't--
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you know, I don't know.
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And she said, "You're
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"different from them and now"
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"I see you're in jail."
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Because she saw the guy beside
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me with an AK-47 and I don't
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have a belt, you see right
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away who is in jail.
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"Now what's happenend?"
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she said and I said,
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"I believe in God."
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She said, "You're so young"
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"and you believe in God?"
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I said, "Yeah."
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And she started asking me
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questions,
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how I got into the jail,
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I told her because we don't
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work on Saturday, I keep the
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Sabbath, you know, and they
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sent me on Sabbath,
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it was April 22nd I think,
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and they sent me and I said no
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and they commanded, you know,
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and...
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She asks questions and said,
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"Well, nice to meet you."
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And I said, "Yeah, nice to"
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"meet you, too."
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And she left, that lady.
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>> So you come to the end,
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or almost to the end of
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leaving...
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but you're still in jail,
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you're in jail for a while
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there, right?
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>> It was on Saturday they put
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me in jail, Sunday two
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prosecuters came from a bigger
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city and usually on Sunday
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they don't work,
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they're not on duty.
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Then on Sunday they came and I
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was washing the floor in an
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office and a guy was guarding
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me with an AK-47, he said,
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"They're calling you."
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And he told me that
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"They came because this is"
00:19:01.04\00:19:03.14
"serious," he said.
00:19:03.14\00:19:05.61
There were two prosecuters in
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the boss's office and I came
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in, he said,
00:19:11.01\00:19:12.78
"Do you know what you did?"
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I say, "Yes, I didn't"
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"go to work."
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"No," he said--
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I said "On Sabbath I didn't"
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"go to work."
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He said, "No, actually."
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"You didn't obey the command."
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And, you know, he said,
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"This is serious."
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"Do you know what it is?"
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And I didn't say anything.
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He said, "It's two years"
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"army jail or six years"
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"civilian jail."
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And they were sitting, I was
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standing, they never offered
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me to sit, you know, I was
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standing the whole time when
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they were asking me all the
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questions they filled out all
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the papers,
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all the papers to put me in
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jail and when they left I
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continued to wash the floors
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and I was praying, I was so,
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you know...
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>> So now you're waiting,
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thinking they're going to come
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and pick you up and take you
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to jail either for two years
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or for six years.
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So you're waiting because you
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didn't follow commands.
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>> Yes.
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>> So...
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What happened in this waiting
00:20:16.54\00:20:17.75
period now?
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What happened, did you end up
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going for two years?
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Six years?
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>> No, no, I think it was--
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I could see that God was
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leading, you know?
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That officer,
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our main officer,
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I didn't tell you that,
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my main one went for
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the holidays.
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His name was Ulmanov.
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and he went for the holidays.
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He didn't take the holidays
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the year before so he had two
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months and he went for two
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month's holiday and the guy
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that was putting me in for
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five days in jail, he hated
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Christians and he was in
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charge that time,
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that older one was away
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and then that guy--
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because I was praying,
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the church was praying
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and for some reason
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I don't know, I don't have an
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explanation why he came back
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one month earlier, that main--
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our officer, Ulmanov.
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>> So he didn't stay away for
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two months,
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he came back after one month.
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>> Yeah he came--
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One month.
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And when he came, they told
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him that--
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they were supposed to tell
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him what's going on, what the
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whole situation was in the
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base and they told him.
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He called me right away.
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They told him outside.
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He went to the office,
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he was still in the gloves
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because it was cold, you know,
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leather gloves.
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He called me right away.
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They found me, they called me
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and I went to them.
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He said, "What's up?"
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And I told him.
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He was so mad.
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He took the gloves,
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he threw them on the table.
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"Go away! I don't want"
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"to see you!" he said.
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I turned around and I left.
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And a couple days later
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the same guy took my writing,
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you know to send to--
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He came to me, he said,
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"It's over."
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I said, "What do you mean?"
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He said, "That officer came,"
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"he destroyed all the papers."
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"You don't have to go to"
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"jail," he said.
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That guy was really nice,
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you know, he said, "You don't"
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"have to go to jail."
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>> Wow!
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>> It was God's protection,
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I think.
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But there was one time I was
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mad at God
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in the army.
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I was really mad and I will
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tell you that story.
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It was Friday
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and I was so hungry,
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so hungry, you know, and it
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was Friday, but the Siberian
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sunset is like 3:00 and I had
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finished working, it was close
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to the base and I washed
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everything, washed my hands
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and I said,
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"I will go to the kitchen and"
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"ask for bread," and say,
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"God, just give it to me,"
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"I'm really hungry."
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I was so hungry, I'll remember
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this all my life.
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And I went to the kitchen
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and there's a lady, she was in
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charge of the bread, butter,
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and sugar, she was in charge.
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And there was a window,
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but the window was closed,
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I knocked on the window,
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she opened it,
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her name was Luda,
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she was skinny with red hair.
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And I said, "Luda,"
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"can you give me bread?"
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And she said, "I don't have"
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"even one piece extra."
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"I don't have it."
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And I was like, "God,"
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"I didn't ask You for a meal."
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>> Just a piece of bread.
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>> Just a piece of bread,
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yeah.
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And I was so mad, you know.
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I tried to keep the Sabbath
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and...
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I don't eat pork,
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you know?
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I just--
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a little bit, you know, bread.
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It's funny now, but it was--
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at that time it was
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not funny...
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>> Of course! No.
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"I just asked You for bread,"
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"I didn't ask You for a meal,"
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you know, I was so--
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And she said, "No,"
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"I don't have any."
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I turned around and I left
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and I was walking away and all
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of a sudden she opened the
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door and, I don't know, if she
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called my name, if she knew my
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name or not, I don't know,
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because there's 400 people,
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you don't remember them all,
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you know and...
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and then she came to me, she
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gave me two pieces of bread
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and they were not fresh.
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They were from yesterday or
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the day before that, you know?
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And she gave me
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two cubes of sugar...
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>> Oh!
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>> Wow!
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>> And I looked at myself,
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I said, "What did you do"
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"just now? You were so mad"
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"and God was testing you..."
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Maybe, you know?
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"And you got so mad."
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And I was so embarrassed,
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you know, and I didn't know
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what to say.
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And at that time it was...
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I don't know how many...
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maybe a year that I was in
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the army, you know?
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And I felt bad after,
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you know, I was 19 years old
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and I was so embarrassed
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because I didn't trust God.
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And there was a washroom in
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the cafeteria
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and I went to that washroom
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because the bread was a bit
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dry, I had to make it wet and
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the sugar cubes,
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I made them wet and I'm eating
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and the tears ran down
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because I was like,
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God was testing me and I
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wasn't faithful to the end and
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I felt a little bit like--
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I don't know, it's hard for me
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to explain how I was feeling
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at that time, you know.
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That's why I was--
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Asked God to forgive me.
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Well, thank you very much,
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Yevgeniy, and your story
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reminds me of the message of
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Acts chapter 5 where Peter
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answers and he says...
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And if we trust in the Lord,
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we're safe.
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>> Absolutely.
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>> He'll take care of us.
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>> Absolutely.
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I saw this in the two years,
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God was with me.
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>> He was.
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He was very much so.
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And God has blessed you with a
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beautiful home, beautiful
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garden, and beautiful wife...
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>> Thank you.
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>> And so...
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>> God is so good.
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>> As we close today, I wonder
00:26:46.60\00:26:47.80
if you could close with a word
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of prayer for us.
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>> Is it OK in my language?
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>> Absolutely!
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Yes, do that.
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>> Thank you so much.
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[Praying in Russian]
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>> Amen, amen.
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Thank you very much and I know
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God understands and maybe one
00:27:36.35\00:27:38.62
day I will understand Russian.
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>> Oh, there will be Russian
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in heaven.
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[all laughing]
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>> I promise you there will be
00:27:44.36\00:27:45.43
Russian in heaven!
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[all laugh]
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>> So friends, we want to
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offer you a book,
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and that is
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The Great Controversy.
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And so if you would like to
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receive that free offer,
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the information is on the
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screen right now.
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>> Friends, we know that we
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can put our complete trust in
00:28:15.46\00:28:16.89
the Word of God.
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And I just want to remind you
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again of the words of Jesus
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where He says,
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"It is written,"
00:28:21.36\00:28:22.30
"man shall not live by"
00:28:22.30\00:28:23.67
"bread alone, but by"
00:28:23.67\00:28:24.87
"every word that proceeds"
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"out of the mouth of God."
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