The
title for this post seems a little out of character for my blog. After you finish reading everything you’ll
understand why I chose it. Other than
the fact that this title makes a very powerful statement, it is also very
revealing.
I
recently met author Greg Scott on a Goodreads website while following a
discussion thread about book advertising.
After volleying ideas on this open forum, Mr. Scott posted a very
interesting story he had heard while on a mission trip to Stovpiagy, Ukraine,
in August 2005. His account mirrored
what happened to Sergei Kourdakov. I was
momentarily stunned.
Following
is an excerpt from this posted discussion:
“It was our last day and we were getting
ready to head back to Kiev and the airport and home. Tima was one of our interpreters and we all
bonded during this trip. Tima’s father
was a Christian pastor during Soviet times, when Christianity was illegal.
A former KGB agent visited Tima’s father’s
church. The former agent met Tima’s dad
and asked about a young pastor he’d met in the same church 15 years earlier –
so that would have been around 1990. He
wanted to meet that pastor and apologize for hauling him off to jail and
beating him.
Tima’s dad said he’d been the pastor at
that church for the past 20 years. The
former agent said, “This is not possible – I hauled off a young pastor.” Tima’s dad said, “I was a young pastor 15
years ago. You hauled me off to jail and
beat me.”
The former KGB agent apologized and asked
for forgiveness.”
— Greg Scott
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Greg
Scott is the Author
of
Anatomy
of an Electronic Break-In
A story ripped from the headlines about
yet another major data breach.
Except this time, the good guys fight
back.
