Despicable me
In October 2024, within days, countless people began posting articles and videos on social media labeling me as an agent of a global conspiracy consacrated to genocide and the establishment of a new Nazi Reich on the planet. I had not felt so important since the USCIRF report advised President Trump to obstruct my work at the OSCE (see the prologue to this report). But this time it went too far. Dozens of strangers flooded the computer network every day with videos calling me, in various languages, a direct agent of the Russian Orthodox Church, a threat to democracy and human rights, even one of the three contemporary ideologues of the anti-cultist plan for world domination (see figure 80). Without irony but with contempt for the ridiculous.
Not only would I be a leading exponent of "anti-cult terrorism" sponsored by a Russian association that has real power in Russia and aims to seize absolute power on the world by controlling the media and persecuting dissidents, but I would even be only three degrees of separation from Adolf Hitler, as can be seen from the screenshot shown in the image below (figure 81).
If this sounds crazy to you, you should know that this is not the crazy part. I quote the attack of an article on the main page that spreads this interesting myth:
Without anticultism, billions of people would have been spared from suffering, persecution, and pain, and millions would have remained alive.[...] It was anticultism that fueled the brutal rise of Nazism as we know it in history. Moreover, were it not for anticultism, even Jesus Christ would not have faced execution.
In short, the "anti-cultists" have been causing damage for more than two millennia. All these people harassing me are exponents of a mysterious organization that bears the name AllatRa and is described in a now conspicuous literature as an apocalyptic cult linked to Russian interests and bearing a pan-Slavic mysticism.
To get an idea of what AllatRa professes one should look at an insane eight-and-a-half-hour “documentary” (so, insane also in terms of duration), in which a truly grotesque conspiracy theory is outlined. In short, the world is ruled by an anti-cult hydra that, at the behest of the Russian Orthodox Church, which holds the real power in the motherland of former Sovietic Union through its anti-cult association, wants to unleash a world war and is preparing the genocide of all those who do not comply with its wishes, just as the Nazis did with the Jews. In the thousands of articles and posts written with great use of artificial intelligence, the action of scientists and activists working to protect the victims of destructive cults is labelled as “terrorism”. This hydra would be behind the attacks on Shinzo Abe, Donald Trump, and Robert Fico (see here). One of the aims of the anti-cult campaign would be to induce the Kremlin to use nuclear weapons (the connection is not entirely clear, but you can see it here). The phantom “anti-cult movement” would also be the director of the mass shootings in public places that are so common in the US. The system by which this kind of international “Spectre”, of which I would be one of the leaders, drive the population into slavery, make them shoot innocent masses and head for nuclear war, would be a subliminal manipulation operated by the media in the service of the organization and that AllatRa called 'Puzzle Piece Coding'. All very interesting and curious ideas, but which, if uttered by just one individual and not by a community of “believers”, would be branded as delusions and require psychiatric intervention of some significance. One of the delusional claims repeated thick and fast by the Allatra trolls is that I, like this whole fantastical anti-cult movement, are Russian agents. It is hilarious an excerpt in which also my friend Janja Lalicih, professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, is labeled as a Russian agent (see here).
The fact is that the smear campaign against me started precisely because I said in an interview with a collective of investigative journalists of the project 'Firehose of Falsehood' that AllatRa is seen as a pro-Russian organisation (I did not even claim that it actually is) and that pro-Putin rhetoric is evident in their narrative.
Saying this about Allatra does not sound like something that is advisable if you are a person with a large audience. Someone has had it worse than me.
On 25 September, the regional prosecutor’s office in Žilina, northern Slovakia, opened an investigation against Kristina Ciroková, a reporter for the Czech newspaper Seznam Zprav, for allegedly “supporting and promoting anti-cult movements”. The accusation is original. Since when is it a crime to disseminate critical information about cults? The accusations are vague but worrying. It appears that the journalist “promoted the ideology of anti-cult movements and organisations, thereby committing the crime of founding, supporting and promoting a movement aimed at suppressing fundamental rights and freedoms”. Basically, these are the charges that Allatra supported against the anti-cult movement!
In December of the previous year, Ciroková made a scoop. He had tracked down Igor Danilov, the fugitive leader of this Ukrainian organisation, that is a group that promotes conspiracy and pseudo-science theories, in northern Slovakia. Ukrainian counterintelligence and police cracked down on the AllatRa movement because they suspect that the organisation's members are working for Russian special services. Danilov is suspected of several crimes. Above all, treason, leading a criminal organisation and justifying and denying aggression against Ukraine. According to the police, the leaders of the movement face 15 years or up to life in prison. Danilov was there with some “heavenly birds”, his harem that includes as its most prominent exponent the supposed alien of the Anunnaki lineage who calls herself Zhanna. Zhanna comes from Vamfi, an artificial planet created by the Anunnaki.
Due to this and other articles and television appearances on Allatra, a criminal investigation has been opened against the journalist for involvement in the dissemination of ideas of an anti-human rights movement and for participating in subliminal manipulation to bring about massacres. Also Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak (ICJK) reporter Karolína Kiripolská was interrogated as a witness by the prosecution due to her reporting on AllatRa and Creative Society. The Creative Society is an outgrowth of Allatra and represents its presentable face in public. No pan-Slavic rhetoric, no Nazi anti-cult conspiracy, no massacres controlled by subliminal manipulation, but “only” the premonition of a coming apocalypse based on volcanic explosions. It is presented as “an association concerned with the geophysical analysis of the effects of climate change on the Earth”, but is in fact engaged in the active promotion and dissemination of climate disinformation on a global scale.
Naturally, journalists' organisations in the Czech Republic and abroad have fought back against this massive attack on press freedom.
It was later discovered that the prosecutor of the Žilina Regional Prosecutor's Office, Lucia Pavlaninová, was associated with the cult. The case was dismissed. However, Pavlaninová was not the only one to bow to the movement's ideas. Slovak television reporters have uncovered that another Žilina prosecutor, Jana Vajzerová, is also in favour of the movement. It is expected that the Creative Society also has supporters among the employees of the Ministry of the Interior.
A look into the rabbit hole
The roots of the AllatRa movement go back to 2011, when the international organisation ‘Lagoda’ was founded in Russian-speaking Ukraine and Halyna Alexandrivna Yablochkina launched the AllatRa publishing house. These two organisations then jointly founded the ‘international public movement AllatRa’ in 2014, the year of the Maidan uprising. The organisation is headed by chiropractor Igor Mikhailovich Danilov. Its main goal seems to be the promotion of Anastasia Novykh's book series, which promises readers “unique scientific evidence of the existence of the soul” and “exclusive information about self-knowledge and secrets hidden by society”. It therefore appears to be another New Age sect. Due to the recognisability of the concepts and style, some experts conclude that Anastasia Novykh is in fact Marina Tsvihun, the former leader of the infamous "Great White Brotherhood of Yusmalos" cult. It is interesting that the White Brotherhood seems to have been a project of the KGB to influence large parts of the Ukrainian population. Anyway, in 2016, Kiev Theological Academy associate professor Konstantyn Moskalyuk published a research paper stating that the author or co-author of Anastasia Novykh's books is actually AllatRa guru Igor Danilov.
The central work of AllatRa's teachings is the book 'Crossroads'. Its main character is Nomo. In the story told in this book, two of the main character's brothers die. However, he will rise to success by gaining public recognition at the Bergedorf Forum in St Petersburg and reaching the peak of his career in 2000. These events clearly coincide with the life story of Russian President Vladimir Putin. AllatRa claims that in the future all Slavic peoples will be united, mainly thanks to a magical saviour (is it Nomo-Putin?). As taught by the cult leader and his alien girlfriend, the world is ruled by "archons" who impose animal life on humanity. Rather, the Anunnaki aliens, who are spiritual, are our friends and will come to our aid when the world collapses. As the spiritual leaders of the cult teach, it was the archons who created history, established the existing world order, divided and rule nations, introduced religions and spread disease. And now the archons are preparing the third world war. The UN and the League of Nations serve the interests of the archons, and NATO is their whip; the centre of these archons is the USA. The members of "Allatra" believe that the unification of the Slavs will certainly take place and then the unification of the world.
A crackpot theory would suggest a bunch of post-hippie wackos, while the anti-scientific ideas propagated by the Creative Society about a climate catastrophe that is not man-made but the result of natural cycles and cosmic rays would remain just one phenomenon among many in the rampant climate misinformation. We would be wrong to think so. The effect of this pervasive disinformation within the conspiratorial ‘echo chambers’ is well known, but the intrusion outside these chambers via the Trojan Horse of the Creative Society, which even appeals to bona fide volunteers concerned about ecological catastrophe, has an even more dangerous impact on people's psychological and socio-cultural structures. The cultural and political infiltration by Allatra is now obvious.
Allatra's cultural and political infiltration is now evident. In January 2024, AllatRa was able to boast that it discussed the climate crisis with the Pope (figure 83).
In September of the same year, the president of AllatRa, Maryna Ovtsynova, said she had attended a “high-level meeting with representatives of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom” - yes, the very USCRIF that, in its report on religious freedom in the world, called on the US president to obstruct FECRIS (see the Prologue of this dossier). We do not know if this is true, because in the photo that Allatra's website publishes as proof of this (Figure 84), there is no indication that she was at USCIRF headquarters, and the stranger seen next to her is not a USCIRF commissioner, however, a certain Egon Cholakian, who claims to be a former US secret agent and a
scientist at CERN (where nobody knows him), has become AlltRa's official lobbyist in the US Congress. In his presentation, he introduces himself as a person who has carried out an investigation into the conspiracy against Allatra carried out by Russian and Ukrainian secret services, the Moscow Patriarchate and the European Federation of Centres for Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS). (figure 86). They pay him $150K per year to spread climate lies and cospiracy propaganda in the US, and globally (figure 87).
There is even a comic about this character in which he fights the anti-cult Hydra in the guise of Captain America and wins (Figures 88 and 89).
Figure 88 and 89 - Egon Cholakian as Captain America in the comic "Captain America Vs Hydra"
In the second story of the saga, Elon Musk calls old Egon Cholakian back into service to fight the Hydra that wants to bring America a civil war. Egon and Elon will save the planet (Figure 90).
Strangely enough, in the same saga, we see a panel on which Hydra tells his followers to ignore "that democratic pawn’ and not to let him "believe that he is the king". It is referring to the silhouette of a man who is clearly Putin. This is to convey the idea that Putin is not really in control of the country. The democratic pawn is under the thumb of the anti-cult hydra (figure 91). Another panel is even more explicit, as it presents poor, disconsolate Putin and Patriarch Kirill declaring that democracy (probably represented by Putin himself) must be got rid of (Figure 92).
While the use of religion as a tool of influence has a long history (think US funding of neo-Pentecostal evangelical churches in Latin America to counter liberation theology and generate voting masses favourable to US interests), the use of religious-based conspiracy theories seems to have exploded in recent years thanks to the ‘hive mind’ of the telematic network. Trump, for example, winked at the QAnon conspiracy during his first presidency. The structure of these networked disinformation cells, which are non-hierarchical and voluntary, can evade traditional state control. This structure of AllatRa makes it possible to use it as an instrument for possible strategies of “public opinion formation”. It is interesting to note that such organisations are mainly active in crisis regions or strategically important regions such as Central and Eastern Europe. Indeed, the idea of uniting the Slavic peoples under the leadership of Russia is particularly suitable for promoting the concept of a Russian world, i.e. as a strategy aimed at restoring Russian influence and power in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states.
Comics are not the only channel of influence AllatRa uses in pop cultural production. They also have a rap artist, one RoyStar SoundSick, who espouses the cult's conspiracy theory in his songs (here an example). He also dedicated a mocking song to me about a fashion brand that I could open with my name so ‘cool’ instead of continuing my anti-cult activity.
The Ukrainian secret service (SBU) claims that AllatRa hides this propaganda under a religious or cultural cloak and combines it with “psychological operations” (psy-ops). This configures a hybrid warfare strategy. Such operations are a low-intensity but effective strategy to manipulate public opinion. Exploiting people's fears in times of global uncertainty and using fear to channel emotional reactions for or against certain goals is a psychological operation in the context of "soft power". The infiltration of institutions in Slovakia, the registration of a lobbyist in the US Congress and the other things we have described show that Allatra ideas also penetrate institutions. In November 2024, representatives of the ALLATRA International Public Movement took part in a major global event — the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku. This event brought together representatives from over 190 countries to address the key issue of overcoming the climate crisis and protecting our planet. Egon Cholokian was there.
AllaTra as a litmus test of pro-cult influence
All this confirms that both in the East and in the West, the creation of alternative cults that are not bound by territorial borders and are protected by the principle of “religious freedom” is an excellent instrument of influence that is functional for geopolitical objectives. The only obstacle seems to be the “anti-cult movement". The solution is to propagate its danger to civil rights and emphasise its power to the point of grotesqueness. Cult apologists in the West do the same. However, while the conspiracy theory there is that the anti-cults are secularists driven by the pseudo-scientific theory of “brainwashing", the conspiracy theory in the East is that the anti-cult movement is part of an evil “pro-religious” organisation (i.e. controlled by people in the Russian Orthodox Church) that practices a kind of global “brainwashing.”!
The appearance on the scene of a bursting actor like Allatra, that has the same enemy as the Western cult apologists, but with divergent motives and conflicting wills of influence, upsets the cards and produces logical paradoxes. Indeed, CESNUR, which never flinches when it comes to defending the worst cults that have fallen into disrepute, has not said a word in defence of AllatRa. CESNUR and its magazine Bitter Winter have always taken an Atlanticist and anti-Russian position. The situation is embarrassing. However, this does not seem to embarrass some classic friends of the Italian study center. For example, a Scientology bigwig, Fabrizio d'Agostini (see the prologue of this dossier), has rushed to the cult's defense with a kind of masterful lecture on religious freedom and the vulnus that the anti-cult movement would cause to it on Alltra TV. D'Agostini is one of the founders of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB), which has published many articles by Bitter Winter and by CESNUR director Massimo Introvigne and that has his wife on its scientific committee.
In October 2024, Allatra took part in a forum in Vienna organised by the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP), an organisation of another historical companion of the Western cult apologists, the Unification Church.
Barbara Grabner, a "respected historian and journalist" who is the wife of the president the Universal Peace Federation (read Unification Church) in Slovakia, gave an interview to AllatRA in which she reproduced almost verbatim what we could read in the indictment of AllatRA's close accuser Pavlanina.
Among the speakers at Moon's church events in that country and in Slovakia, we can easily find Ján Figeľ, a conservative politician close to AllatRa (see Fascists, spies and gurus. 6. The libertarian network).
It is therefore not surprising that the only newspaper to publish an article that is a hagiography of Igor Danilov ("innovator in medicine, advocate of the Earth") is ‘The Washington Times’ (figure 95), i.e. the newspaper of the church founded by Moon (see the prologue of this report).
The mutual relationships of the AllatRa-Scientology-Moonies triad are well established. There are various proofs of this. For example, the Slovak Universal Peace Federation has held several events with AllatRa, as you can see, for example, here. The same can be said for Scientology (here). Here you can see AllatRa with Scientology and Moon's followers together.
According to the Allatra case in Slovakia, Allatra asked the the prosecutor's office to get testimonies about anticult terrorism from these groups: Falun Gong, Scientology, Waldorf school, Slovak Yoga Association, Mormons and Jehova Witnesses (figure 96). The prosecutor in his indictment makes extensive use of the literature produced by CESNUR to denigrate the anti-cult movement (Figure 97).
Ultimately, the AllatRa case is a real litmus test. First of all, it demonstrates the effectiveness of the use of spirituality as a geopolitical means. It can often hide behind disputes that are ostensibly about scientific controversies or human rights advocacy (as outlined in Fascists, spies and gurus. 7. CIA cults). This case also shows the creation of a logical short-circuit and reveals a double standard, but also makes evident where consolidated alliances diverge and allows us to understand why; in other words, the observation of the presences and absences next to Allatra shows which associations regard the action of cultural influence as primary (the absentees) and which regard it as secondary and instrumental to the advantage of their own organisation (the present ones). If we were to apply to the organisations that do not publicly flank AllatRa the same logic that AllatRa applies to me, namely that of degrees of separation, we could say that CESNUR or HRWF are only one degree of separation away from a pro-Russian organisation.
Finally, Allatra is a litmus paper also because the accusations against the anti-cult movement, taken to extremes, appear as grotesque as a caricature, and as a caricature they better show the most characteristic aspects of the original "face". The accusations were already ridiculous. In fact, AlltRa uses the same arguments already used by western cult apologists in the context of an even more absurd conspiracy. For example, take a look at the video that you will find in the main body of this text (Video 4). It is an excerpt from a kind of talk show dedicated to me, in which an expert on my person uses exactly the same arguments that have been used for years by the network of cult apologists (CESNUR, Scientology & C.) to denigrate me.
Video 4 - an expert in "Corvagliology" speaks
As mentioned above, the AllatRa trolls claim that it's not them who are pro-Russian, but me and all the other anti-cult activists. As evidence, they cite the news published in the newspaper “The European Times” that 15 non-governmental organisations have asked UN Secretary Blinken to expel the FECRIS Federation. Apparently they did not think it worth mentioning that 1. “The European Times” newspaper is one of the emanations of Scientology (as shown in the prologue of this report); 2. the signatories to that letter were mostly expressions of cult apologist organisations, such as CESNUR and HRWF, or organisations linked to Scientology, such as the International Religious Freedom Roundtable and its chairman, the White House Scientology lobbyist Greg Mitchell (see the chapter on the apologetic network) and other shady characters; neither Blinken nor anyone else at the United Nations thought to attach the slightest importance to such a letter.
Further evidence are the “interesting pictures” of various FECRIS members eating together in a restaurant in Riga. Of course, they would be interesting if any of us had ever denied eating together and, more importantly, if eating together was evidence of a conspiracy. It is then mentioned that the congress in Latvia was organised by a person who would later turn out to be pro-Russian. Not only did that person turn out to be pro-Russian years after the opening of the congress as a political representative, but the event was also organised by a Latvian anti-cult association whose members are against Putin's policies and Russian aggression against Ukraine. The video ends with this question, which should be rhetorical. ‘And who is Luigi Corvaglia, on whose side is he? Is he on side of democracy or is he just another pawn, another agent of the Russian RACIRS (a Russian association)?’ The guy who asks seems to know the answer. I address the same question to him.
Fascists, spies and gurus. 2. Mind Games
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