Editing Yehowists (section)

==During the Soviet period==
Ilyinites took the revolution of 1917 indifferently, because their teaching prohibited them from taking action in military clashes and killing. However, Ilyinites expected to get more religious freedom after the revolution. In 1939, a secret center of Ilyinites was discovered and closed by [[NKVD|the NKVD]] in [[Nizhny Tagil]] city in Ural. During the Soviet period, Ilyinites had to hide their activity. Some of them were persecuted, arrested, and had their religious literature confiscated. Quite often, young men refused to serve in the army, which resulted in criminal prosecution and, in some cases, capital punishment. Nevertheless, Yehowists kept on distributing Ilyin's booklets, which were printed secretly, written by hand, or copied with copying paper. Yehowists are not a registered organization, believing that there is no need to get registered with the authorities that belong to [[Satan]].{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} Religious publications about Yehowists made during the Soviet period were scarce and contained incorrect data about Yehowists. They stated that Ilyinites ceased to exist as a religious movement and also tried to represent Yehowists as part of or a branch of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]].<ref>See Modern Yehowism by Moskalenko A., Novosibirsk: Science, 1971.</ref>