On February 24, 2022, it was not only a ground, information and technological war that Russia unleashed by invading Ukraine. Quickly, Russian warlike rhetoric shifted to another, spiritual front. The “special military operation” turned into a holy war, justified by Vladimir Poutine and the mighty Church orthodox Russian by the “Satanism” of the West. More than the Devil, it is now an occult attack that the Federal Protective Service (FSO), the government body responsible for protecting senior Russian officials and dignitaries, including the President, fears.
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A note from the Kremlin, revealed by the independent Russian media Insider and quoted by Foreign Policydescribes the FSO’s techniques for preparing its agents for a “massive ideological attack”. Here, it is not a question of knowing how to resist the propaganda – usual tool of wars – pro-Ukrainian, but at a “psychological infection of staff” by an enemy who would attempt to manipulate through hypnosis or unknown mystical and psychic powers.
The FSO details in its note several means of countering the threat and psychically strengthening its officers, such as telling them about the bravery and heroism of the Russian troops, showing them the pantheon of the best agents or even the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan in Moscow. – with the idea, perhaps, of “desatanizing” them. A mentoring system between officers them “more politically savvy” and those “less stable” is also planned, as well as, in more extreme cases, the hospitalization of those suffering “neuropsychiatric instability”.
In the population as well as the elites, the success of esotericism in Russia
Belief in the occult and the paranormal is common in Russia. Since the start of the war in ukraineesotericism and astrology have been a real success, underlines The world, in response to the anguish in Russian society. Mediums and seers follow one another on state television sets, while information sites evoke the use of black magic by Ukrainian troops.
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The Russian elite is not spared by this taste for pseudoscience. Not to mention the time of Rasputin, the ussr employed mediums or by studying extrasensory perceptions – such as telepathy, clairvoyance or remote viewing – for military purposes, espionage or even in agriculture. Work that continued under President Boris Yeltsin.
More recently, in 2019, an article appeared in an official Russian military newspaper, written by a colonel, claims that his soldiers possessed psychic powers, capable of mastering foreign languages, conducting non-verbal interrogations and locating enemy troops, after having worked with dolphins. In the political sphere, deputies and senators do not hide their attraction for pseudoscience. “Generally, Russian decision-makers are superstitious”notes political scientist Sergej Sumlenny at Atlantico. “They believe in numerology, horoscopes, coincidences, divine inspiration.”
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