Some time after the death of her first husband, Boris' mother remarried a military man, who in 1953 was arrested for failure to follow orders during the riots and given 25 years of exile in the Vorkuta's camps.
[5] In the same year, Perchatkin sent appeals to the UN, to the World Council of Churches and the heads of state that signed the Helsinki Accords, in which he spoke about the constant persecution of believers in the USSR.
[1] In 1977, together with Nikolai Goretoy, he spoke out in defense of the arrested dissidents Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Orlov and Anatoly Sharansky, appealing to the Christians of the world on behalf of the Pentecostals.
[7] On December 20, 1978, Perchatkin tried to send a congratulatory New Year's telegram to US President Jimmy Carter through the Nakhodka Post Office asking for attention to those who do not have freedom of religion.
The Soviet government organized the persecution of Perchatkin and his family through the publication in the central city newspaper of articles "Hypocrite wholesale and retail", "Convictions of convenience", "Before it’s too late", etc.
[8] On August 21, 1980, Perchatkin was arrested in Nakhodka, and at the end of March 1981[10] he was convicted under Article 190.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for spreading "deliberately false fabrications discrediting the Soviet state and social system" to 2 years in prison.
In February 1983, he was arrested again and then sentenced under Part 2 of Article 218 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 1.5 years for illegally carrying cold weapon.