Former USSR Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, sects from both West and East are experiencing varying rates of success in their ongoing efforts to proselytize the nations that once made up the Soviet Union and its satellites. They were pumping all his books now in Russian.
TV is a big tool, and inexpensive.
Their responses seem to confirm data from other sources on the relative strengths of the various cults now working in the region. During the past European summer, conventions of Jehovah's people held in formerly Communist lands have had astounding attendances. Indeed, the most recent Watch Tower Society statistics show over 177,000 active Witnesses in eleven former East Bloc nations at the end of 1992. In the former Soviet Union alone, the total number of JWs exceeds 66,000. Millions more study Krsna conscious books at home.