Russia: Is Not InHumane!Hello,
I have been following this story line for a while. Russia has been doing all that it can to try to get these people out, but since they will not leave, Russia has been working very hard to keep the caves from flooding & killing all the occupants!
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Russian doomsday sect's cave saved from flooding
20/03/2008 15:28 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, March 20 (RIA Novosti) - Emergency service workers in central Russia have carried out an operation to prevent thaw waters reaching a cave where 35 members of a doomsday sect have been holed up for almost five months.
The sect, including four children, have been holed up in the cave in the Penza Region since the fall of 2007 waiting for the apocalypse, which they say will happen in May 2008. They have threatened to set fire to themselves if any attempt is made to force them out.
"Rescuers have dug special drainage ditches to prevent thaw waters from reaching the cave," said an official with the emergency services.
The official went on to say that there was little likelihood now of the cave being submerged by underground waters in the spring thaw, adding however that, "If a need arises, rescue workers will come to the site again to carry out any necessary work."
He also added that police officers on duty near the cave were monitoring the situation and that there were contingency plans in place to rescue the sect members if flooding did occur.
According to the sect's founder, Pyotr Kuznetsov, the cave is said to have been divided into five cells, with one large 'room' set aside for prayers. The prayer room is also to be used for the eventual burial of the sect members.
Kuznetsov is currently being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital in Penza, about 600 km (370 miles) southeast of Moscow.
Religion was tightly controlled in the U.S.S.R. and the collapse of the Soviet Union saw an explosion in sects and cults, as well as interest in New Age philosophies and beliefs in Russia and many other former Soviet republics.
There are currently believed to be around 500-700 such sects in Russia, containing some 600,000-800,000 people.
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Sounds more like America everyday that I am here. :)
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
PS:Remember (Waco: 74 members of Branch Davidians cult, including leader David Koresh, died in a fire) I remember!
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I have been following this story line for a while. Russia has been doing all that it can to try to get these people out, but since they will not leave, Russia has been working very hard to keep the caves from flooding & killing all the occupants!
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Russian doomsday sect's cave saved from flooding
20/03/2008 15:28 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, March 20 (RIA Novosti) - Emergency service workers in central Russia have carried out an operation to prevent thaw waters reaching a cave where 35 members of a doomsday sect have been holed up for almost five months.
The sect, including four children, have been holed up in the cave in the Penza Region since the fall of 2007 waiting for the apocalypse, which they say will happen in May 2008. They have threatened to set fire to themselves if any attempt is made to force them out.
"Rescuers have dug special drainage ditches to prevent thaw waters from reaching the cave," said an official with the emergency services.
The official went on to say that there was little likelihood now of the cave being submerged by underground waters in the spring thaw, adding however that, "If a need arises, rescue workers will come to the site again to carry out any necessary work."
He also added that police officers on duty near the cave were monitoring the situation and that there were contingency plans in place to rescue the sect members if flooding did occur.
According to the sect's founder, Pyotr Kuznetsov, the cave is said to have been divided into five cells, with one large 'room' set aside for prayers. The prayer room is also to be used for the eventual burial of the sect members.
Kuznetsov is currently being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital in Penza, about 600 km (370 miles) southeast of Moscow.
Religion was tightly controlled in the U.S.S.R. and the collapse of the Soviet Union saw an explosion in sects and cults, as well as interest in New Age philosophies and beliefs in Russia and many other former Soviet republics.
There are currently believed to be around 500-700 such sects in Russia, containing some 600,000-800,000 people.
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Sounds more like America everyday that I am here. :)
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
PS:Remember (Waco: 74 members of Branch Davidians cult, including leader David Koresh, died in a fire) I remember!
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This group should come to California, where they would fit right in.
Kyle and Svet- Wow! That is wild. I remember Waco well! It was the first real religious sect that captured my attention. That is scary stuff. Religion is a powerful tool. I think it can be manipulated into some very ugly things! Take care friends!
Hey Barrett,
Waco caught allot of peoples attention. It shows how powerful certain individuals can become over people. This Doomsday group in Russia is just one of a 1,000,000+ groups like it in the world.
Thanks and take care.
Kyle & Svet
Hey Clark,
California does have allot of groups like that. Once again you remind me of things.
Thanks again you are always a pleasure to have stop by.
Kyle
When I was in SPb, I was researching for a report on religious groups & cults in the Former Soviet Union and the material out there definitely makes interesting reading!
From some personal accounts of people involved within these churches, there were (pushy & well-funded) foreign groups just waiting in Finland in the early 1990s for the first opportunity to cross into Russia - and they reported "fertile grounds" after the decades of religious restriction eroding taboos and scepticism about importing non-traditional or recent manifestations of religious groups.
There is also apparently a tendency for "home-grown cults" especially in the Ukraine, which is regarded by some as "the Bible Belt of the Former Soviet Union." I find it fascinating... (but more than a little scary!)
Hi, Bettina (Europe Trotter)!
Thank you for a very interesting comment!
You are right after collapsing of Soviet Union we got a lot of sects! I remember one of these "home-grown cults" especially in the Ukraine. I remember how in early 1990s we just found out about White Brotherhood and what they do with people who follows them. That was terrible and scary. I remember seeing people from White Brotherhood who preached in Moscow metro. That was one of home-made totalitarian sect but after Soviet Union collapsing we got a lot of sects from all over the world: even from Japan and India!
I just feel sorry for people who got caught to the sect - but might be they are really happy, and just their relatives are unhappy by loosing them.
Best wishes,
Svet and Kyle
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