id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ovmir6l5kvdxzl7xombmii6he4 Lawrence Klippenstein Exercising a free conscience: The conscientious objectors of the Soviet union and the German democratic republic 1985 10 .pdf application/pdf 5136 392 64 nations, the refusal to take the oath, and/or to bear arms as military Conscientious objection to military service, usually on religious Since about 1970 conscientious objection to military service, as a form Publicised cases of refusal to bear arms or to swear the military oath are to perform some kind of appropriate non-military form of service (sometimes even including the bearing of arms) is shared by many reform Baptist young men in particular. citizens of the Soviet Union, hence not subject to its military service when an alternative form of service is granted, conscientious objectors In 1963 a conference of EKD leaders called explicitly for the legal protection of those refusing military service for reasons of conscience, and who refused to serve in the active military services of the country. form of military service, the Baueinheiten included. II Article 132 of the Constitution: "Military service in the Armed Forces ofthe USSR is an ./cache/work_ovmir6l5kvdxzl7xombmii6he4.pdf ./txt/work_ovmir6l5kvdxzl7xombmii6he4.txt