Russia: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Vladivostok

Vladivostok is a big city in Russia, which is close to the border with China. There are many Chinese tourists in Vladivostok. To raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong to the Chinese people, Falun Gong practitioners have been passing out leaflets at the tourist spots for several years. Although the Russian practitioners cannot speak Chinese, they can tell the changes of Chinese people’s attitude toward Falun Gong. The following is a typical photo taken at a tourist spot, in which everybody in a Chinese tourist group were reading Falun Gong newspapers.

Once, about three hundred Chinese tourists came to the beach, where practitioners were distributing the newspaper. Almost every Chinese person asked for the newspaper, and they even fought for it.

Before, some Chinese people cursed practitioners when practitioners tried to give them the newspaper. But now, Chinese people say, “Thank you” to practitioners. A few people tried to stop others accepting the newspaper, but nobody listens to them. Some of them praised practitioners for their courage.

Kind-hearted Russian people sometime gave practitioners good suggestions. For example, they told practitioners that some Chinese people don’t know that the newspapers are free, so they don’t want to accept it. Practitioners took their advice, which had a good effect.