persecution resulted in the demise of most Anabaptist groups, but through continual migrations and sheer persistence, the Hutterites managed to survive. Over next 300 yrs they lived in Slovakia, Romania, and Russia, and finally in the 1870s to the United States. Due to taxes and military draft, forced them to move to Canada because they are pacifists. Today there are 36,000 Hutterites in 481 colonies located in Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia; the rest…
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