159. “. . . After the end of World War 2, the communists began consolidating their power throughout his country. Eventually, they took control of the government. For decades the authorities oppressed believers. When Stoyon was 12 they imprisoned his Protestant pastor/father. His father remained in custody for 10 years. At first, he said, they held him in a secret police place in our city. Every morning, one of the guards would take their own human waste and spread it on a piece of toast that he brought to my father for breakfast. . . .” ~ Nik Ripken