"I was 11 months old when we were taken to Siberia from the city of Lviv. In the morning, the NKVD came to us together with the military - young guys, treated us kindly. They collected all our property, including porcelain, and loaded us into a boxwagon at the main railway station in Lviv. To go to 11-month-old babies in Siberia is a deadly task. My mother did not have milk due to persecution and stress and there was no place to get it on the way. So, I was starving for 2 weeks, my mother was convinced that I would die because I didn't even have the strength to cry. However, by some miracle, I survived. We were brought to the Bilyolik farm, the Republic of Khakassia, a settlement to work on the farm. My mother changed porcelain dishes for milk and food, it saved my life. If the soldiers had not collected these dishes in Lviv, we would not have survived in Siberia". Violating fundamental human rights throughout its regime, the Soviet Union persecuted, imprisoned, sent to hard labor, Jehovah's Witnesses only because they did not compromise their worldview and refused to worship Stalin or promote communist military interests. Halyna was taken to Siberia during a secret operation, called “North”, on April 8, 1951. At that time almost nine thousand Jehovah’s Witnesses were exiled to Siberia where they were forced to stay for some 14 years.