Against the backdrop of an unprecedented and historic decline in Putin’s ratings, which occurred over the course of a year and was recorded by the leading sociological agency VTsIOM, unexpected forces came to the aid of the Kremlin ruler. The leading witches of Russia, as they call themselves, gathered in Moscow to support their leader with a special occult ritual. No, this is not a joke or a fabrication of the tabloid media — the corresponding news was spread by prestigious media structures, and we provide the video evidence below.
On the one hand, it may seem that what happened is a reason to smile or shake one’s head in disbelief. After all, in a modern secular democratic state, where freedom of conscience and religion is guaranteed, anyone can gather and ask for anything, accompanied by any ritual.
But we all know very well that Russia is not such a state, contrary to what is declared in its Constitution. And in it hundreds of people are criminally persecuted precisely for taking part in the religious meetings of non-violent groups. Moreover, if earlier it was only Muslims from the Nurjular, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Tablighi Jamaat organizations, which are banned in Russia, now members of the also banned Jehovah’s Witnesses movement, who consider themselves Christians, are heavily targeted.
Let us remind you that all these persecutions began with discussions about which religions are traditional for Russia and which are not. Moreover, one of the leaders of the newly created World Russian People’s Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Roman Silantyev, boldly stated that the main criterion for considering a particular form of Islam as traditional or not for Russia should be unwavering loyalty to the state, unrestricted by any religious principles. It seems that the same approach applies to all other denominations.
Well, from this point of view, the witches of Russia are acting quite logically. After all, judging by the catastrophic decline in the power’s popularity, some of its representatives may come to the conclusion that the magical services of the Russian Orthodox Church are clearly not enough. Against this background, the «patriotic witches», by expressing their active support for the authorities, have a good chance of being recognized, if not as a mass, then at least as a quasi-religious group associated with the Russian state — as servants, so to speak, of one of the traditional religions of the Russian authorities.
Although, looking at figures like Yarovaya, Mizulina, Poklonskaya and others, one sometimes gets the impression that this has already happened a long time ago…