Father Dimitry himself never satisfactorily explained his recantation, though it ended his mission as a dissident priest.

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In February charges were laid against Nguyen Van Ly, a dissident priest who founded Block 8406, a new and apparently widely supported group which last year issued a manifesto for democracy.

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To give another example from another family, Father Georgy Edelstein, an Orthodox priest of Jewish origin, is a courageous ex-dissident who said the atheist Soviet state had no moral claim on his loyalty.

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