In 1930, a brochure by A. Golovkin and M. Popov titled "The Church in Our Days" was published in Ivanovo, which provided numerous examples of "priestly-kulak raids." However, it did not mention that almost all the figures in the book had either been exiled or were in custody by the time of its publication. In the late 1920s in the village of Milinovo, Kovrovsky District, priest Pokrovsky, along with kulaks Barsukov, Labin, Kharitonov, and Andreev, at a peasant meeting discussing land management issues, stated that it was not worth uniting with the poor. Labin and Barsukov claimed they did not want to deal with the poor and did not wish to join the collective farm. Kharitonov said that collective farms would lead peasants to ruin. Priest Pokrovsky, while organizing a collective farm, went door to door with an icon, convincing peasants that the collective farm would collapse and that the Soviet power was foolishly embarking on this endeavor. These actions were regarded as the creation of a counter-revolutionary group. On October 27, 1929, they were all arrested; Pokrovsky, Barsukov, and Labin received three years of imprisonment, while Kharitonov and miller Andreev received three years of exile. All the kulaks' statements boiled down to a reluctance to unite with the poor. However, Kharitonov said: "Your tears will be avenged; when the Chinese come with the White Guard, I will be the first to strike down all our collectivists, I already have a good 'cheresedelnick' prepared." This phrase became key in history, although the mention of the 'cheresedelnick' was removed from the introduction, which changed the meaning of the word "strike."

At the end of 1934, believers from the village of Milinovo actively defended their rights. On December 1, they appealed to the village council requesting permission for the priest to visit homes in Milinovo and neighboring villages, but likely received a refusal. Then, on December 5, they appealed to the district executive committee with the same question, stating that there were no contagious diseases, taxes were paid, and citing the laws. However, the district executive committee provided them with a certificate from the district doctor about the presence of an epidemic. On December 12, the believers again, citing the law, complained to the regional executive committee, claiming that the district executive committee was not allowing visits, they did not trust the village doctor, and the village council representative threatened arrest. They asserted that if there was an epidemic, it was not in their village, and expressed concern about taxes. Only on December 15 did the regional executive committee inform the Kovrov district executive committee that local authorities' permission was not required; the believers only needed to notify them, citing articles from the decrees of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars and the instructions of the Permanent Commission on Cult Issues. On December 23, 1934, believers from Milinovo complained to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee about the ban on religious processions.

On June 30, 1936, believers again complained about the ban on religious processions and mentioned that on September 25, 1934, the school supervisor P.S. Kuznetsov, who had previously shot at the church windows, fired at the window of the guardhouse where the minister lived, but the matter was hushed up. They also complained that the village council burdened 85-year-old Dementy Gornostayev with taxes for his service. On July 11, 1939, the district executive committee decided to liquidate the Nikolsky church in Milinovo.