Russia
It was very difficult for Srila Prabhupada to establish Krishna consciousness in Russia. In the days of the USSR religion was illegal and the communists particularly feared the Hare Krishna movement and singled out the Hare Krishna devotees for imprisonment and forced them to take mind damaging drugs and tortured them in so many ways. There was a world-wide protest against this treatment of the Russian Hare Krishnas and Mikhail Gorbachev freed the Russian devotees from the prisons and psychiatric hospitals. But even since then it has been very difficult to get Krishna consciousness seriously started in Russia.
The painful story of how the early Hare Krishna Devotees were treated because of thei
Niranjana Swami and other devotees on the development of the Hare Krishna movement in
Ravi Talveda 
Dharani Dharendra Das 
