doukhobor someone else my uncle married a doukhobor lady her family were 'sons of freedom' 'freedomites' they blew up the bridges that my grandpa built my cousin is part doukhobor "spirit wrestlers" they called them "toil and peaceful life" was their motto they fled czarist russia with the help of leo tolstoy they came to canada with high hopes ... when the canadian government took away their kids and threw them in camps the doukhobors burned down their own homes and they marched for many miles in the nude they went on hunger strike some of them died ... my uncle married a doukhobor woman my cousin is part doukhobor and so is my mother, in a way because as a child she used to play with the doukhobor children they taught her some of their language she learned their melodies she learned their recipes she learned their motto my mother has many doukhobor friends ... today there are still doukhabors they mostly don't live now the way they used to now they all have tv's and satellites they are forgetting how to speak their russian but some of them are remembering they will always be doukhobors it is something that cannot be taken from them 041031 ... someone else http://www.civilization.ca/cultur/doukhobors/dou01eng.html 041031 ... someone else http://www.doukhobor-museum.org/ 041101 ... someone else i like listening to the doukhobor music the local tv station has doukhobor broadcasts on wednesdays and other days in the shops and on the streets one can still catch a waft of russian and though some resorted to acts of arson as a form of protest, the majority of doukhobors did not, and do not they remain to this day as ardent pacifists 041101 ... someone else http://www.ithaca.edu/russia/doukhobors1.htm 041101 ... someone else the tolstoy family is still, to this day, involved with the canadian doukhobor community vladimir tolstoy, great great grandson of leo tolstoy, visited them last year http://www.tolstoy.bc.ca/connections.htm 041101 ... someone else http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Doukhobor-Collection/ 041102 ... . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhobor 061125 what's it to you? who go blather from