Patrick Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
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Patrick Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On New Year's Eve of that year, she walked the streets of Leningrad, handing out small cards she typed herself.
And on each one was a message, a message so simple and inoffensive to our ears, it almost sounds quaint.
This is what she wrote.
As a result of that message, she was arrested shortly after and interrogated and then fired from her job.
Local papers mocked her as Holy Ada, and everyone expected the pressure to break her.
How could a simple secretary resist the Soviet system?
Ada responded to the article by writing a letter to the newspaper's editor.
She said this, You write that religion is the opium of the people, but I have seen what your atheism produces, drunkenness, broken families, despair, and prisons full of people who have nothing to live for.
I have found in Christ something you have not been able to give anyone, a reason not to despair.
This began a long string of imprisonments, interrogations, and then releases, all designed to terrify Ada into submission.
She never broke, though.
At her final court case, which determined whether she'd be sent to a labor camp where most Russians died, the judge asked her why she simply wouldn't recant her faith.
Didn't she understand the consequences?
She explained to the judge, because I am not afraid of you.
I was afraid once.
I am not afraid anymore.
What can you do to me that God has not already permitted for some purpose I do not yet understand?
Her judge sentenced her to a lifetime in a labor camp.
And of course, this horrified her parents.
But she wrote to her mother, Mama, don't weep for me.
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