Georgi Vins

Male, Deceased Person

1928 – 1998

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Who was Georgi Vins?

Georgi Petrovich Vins was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches. Following an agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Vins and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 with a group of other dissidents, Alexander Ginzburg, Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits and Valentin Moroz in exchange for two convicted spies, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger.

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Born
Aug 4, 1928
Soviet Union
Died
Jan 11, 1998

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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