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Conrad Vine

Dr. Conrad Vine is a British-born Seventh-day Adventist ordained minister, former President of Adventist Frontier Missions (2011–2025) and President of As a Needle to the Pole, Inc.

Oct 11, 2026

JamesHOST
0:44
... might be right now.
0:46
Yeah, sure.
0:47
So the True and Free Adventists arose in the Soviet Union, in particular in Russia, around, uh, 1924 to 1928.
0:56
And what happened was the, the Soviet authorities were pressuring the churches, the Protestant churches, to support conscription for their young men into the Red Army.
1:07
And, um, at the time, uh, Lenin was in control.
1:10
He was about to transition to Joseph Stalin, and the, the Soviet regime was known already for its brutality, and already responsible for the deaths of, uh, maybe millions of people, um, by that stage of the Soviet Union.
1:24
And so the, the Adventist Church met in 1924 in the, um, All-Soviet Adventist Congress, and under pressure from the Soviet authorities, um, they, uh, they, they changed their position on conscientious objection.

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JamesHOST
35:27
And now it turned out that they were in the right the whole time.

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