A “new prophecy”? A quack show on Russia’s third-largest television channel NTV will soon unpack “revelations”.Image: NTV Screenshot / Edited by Anton Gerashchenko
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02/16/2023, 12:21 p.m02/16/2023, 12:24 p.m
The Russian propaganda apparatus keeps attracting attention with strange statements.
Be it the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who keeps coming up with strange Nazi theses – or Russia’s chief propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, who likes to tell crude conspiracy myths in his own talk show on Russian state television and makes fun of Western politicians at the same time.
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But one Advertising – or a program preview – in the Russian private broadcaster NTV puts all these confused statements in the shade.
Because: A “sensational evening of prophecies” is announced. With a cliffhanger that makes Twitter users laugh.
Former Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko (Party: Our Ukraine) drew attention to this mysterious commercial. On Twitter he shared the video with English subtitles and wrote: “If you thought Russian propaganda broadcasts were weird, here’s one Advertisement for a TV show that was broadcast on Russian TV.”
In fact, Gerashchenko wasn’t exaggerating with his tweet. The commercial, which is 44 seconds long, is bursting with conspiracy ideological announcements.
It is about “new calculations and prophecies of the seer Baba Wanga”. However, these prophecies cannot be new: the “seer” who describes herself as Baba Wanga died in 1996. Vanga was considered the most famous seer in Bulgaria and was particularly popular in the Soviet Union.
In March 2022, her name popped up again because she is said to have predicted the world domination of Russian President Vladimir Putin during her lifetime (in 1979). At that time, the fortune teller is said to have said: “Everything will thaw like ice, only one will remain untouched – Vladimir’s glory, glory of Russia.” In addition, she claimed that no one could Russia stop. “Everything is cleared out of the way by her!” Apparently she has it war in Ukraine already foreseen.
World domination is said to have been predicted for him in 1979: Vladimir Putin.Image: www.imago-images.de / SNA
Baba Wanga became known worldwide because she allegedly carried out the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in the United States USA had predicted. She is also said to have warned of the corona pandemic.
So now there should be “new knowledge”. And even an exact date.
“The whole world will see it,” says the promotional clip.
“When will victory come in a special military operation? What new threats are the Western leaders secretly preparing for Russia? When will the Anglo-Saxons eliminate Zelenskyy? And what event will shock everyone on July 17?”
Meanwhile, the video shows a man with a beard writing on a blackboard: “July 17, 2023?”
Pretty mysterious…
The channel NTV, it is important to mention, does not belong to the Russian state television. So it’s not officially a propaganda channel. However, he plays a wide audience. He is according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education the third largest broadcaster in Russia – and is still partly controlled by the state.
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