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were many, many gypsies traveling through Russia for many centuries. So the
people thought that gypsies were traveling on the cow. It was a common sight
that they traveled on the cow.

Now why was this? Why did the Lord do this? Because at that time there was
very strict control. People could not move in and out of the villages because
Russia was already gathering control on all the people. What did they do in
Russia; this lowly prepared population? Each neighbor was told to spy on his
next door neighbor and report what that neighbor says, what that neighbor
does and where that neighbor goes. So each neighbor spies on the other and
reports to the government, to the KGB, without knowing that the next door
neighbor was also spying on them! They did that in secrecy and were offered
some reward.

People were doing that so movement was checked very closely. So if this
brother would have gone on horses, it would have been of immediate notice
that he was leaving the village. Nobody was allowed to move from town or
from village without permission from the authorities.

We experienced that same thing in China in the communist game. You had to
have four stamps on a piece of paper, the reasons for where you go and for
how long you go, before you can leave town, for only 10 kilometers out,
sometimes. It was the same type of control in China that we experienced, so
we know what we are talking about. It was the same condition in Russia.

So then, this brother left quietly. He was taken for a gypsy. The Lord sent him
on a side road. Then what happened at midnight on the same night?

Right after midnight the KGB came to take this brother to Siberia because he
was proclaimed as an enemy of the people. He was a rich man supposedly, and
so his property would have been confiscated that night, and he would have
been taken to Siberia and gotten rid of, because they killed many people and
some they needed for labor. These they took to Siberia.

Many rich people were just simply shot - taken outside of the village and shot
with a machine gun or whatever. They killed many millions of people in
Russia, from 1933 on.

So anyhow, this brother left, and when they came to pick him up, there was no
man and no family. Just disappeared! They didn't know what to do. Now what