Jan 20, 2025 Searching for law about persecution of Christians in Soviet Union

Today I start thinking about law in Soviet Union that prohibited the right to believe in Jesus Christ in the late period of Soviet Union (Gorbachev's period). How it was precisely? I found that Gorbachev allowed in fact for the Orthodox Church to believe free on October 1, 1990 with the Soviet law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations", but I now recall that some witnesses have said that the "sect" of Christian Baptist Church, was anyway persecuted, and Baptists, who were giving away, e.g., just a Gideon Brothers pocket Bible, were arrested for the spreading of Anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to 6 years of jail or labor camp. Has the anti-Christian law really existed or I am wrong? So, I have read today all the websites about that. Actually, it's of course impossible to read all the websites, and I am joking. I found, for e.g., that even today, if you want to read the Bible to people (more than 10 persons strong in a room or a public space), you should register your "group", or "organisation", otherwise it's illegal.

You should also prolong the registration every year in local administration. So, if Jesus Christ could live in the modern Russia instead the Biblical Judaea, he should visit first a local administration for registration, and only after the registration of a group of Twelve Apostles to go to the sea of Galelee, etc. Seems the Judaea , a Roman province in the period of time of Jesus Christ, was much more free land for believers than the modern Russia? In all, that what I was doing today — searching for the Soviet law: why Soviet Union regime, having Gorbachev reform "Perestroika", had yet persecuted the Baptists; wich law regulated the persecution; and why this had stopped? Was it under Boris Eltsin? Was Eltsin had repealed a Soviet law? How it was happened?

In the conclusion, I should mention that many politologists consider that in modern Russia happening now a rebuilding of Soviet law system, e.g, the Jehovah's Witnesses (that I can call a Christian sect similar Baptist Church) was completely banned recently in Russia as an extremist organisation.