“… Then, one night as Dmitry spoke in the very chair I was now seated, the door to the house was suddenly and violently burst open. An officer and soldiers pushed through the crowd; the officer grabbed Dmitry by the shirt and slapped him rhythmically back and forth across the face, slammed him against the wall and said in a cold voice, ‘We have warned you, and warned you, and warned you! I will not warn you again! If you do not stop this nonsense, this is the least that is going to happen to you!'”~Nik Ripken