Meanwhile, in Russia:
A Russian scientist who is close to President Putin has told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that the West is planning to exterminate the majority of the Earth’s population, leaving a tiny elite whose needs will be serviced by robots.
The comments by Mikhail Kovalchuk, the head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute, highlight the type of extreme conspiracy theories that critics say influence Kremlin policy.
Kovalchuk, 77, alleged that western countries were plotting to unleash a deadly virus to reduce the number of people on Earth. He also claimed the West was using LGBT and child-free ideologies to cut populations because robots would soon be able to work better and more effectively.
“The West … understands that a huge number of people are becoming unnecessary. They have begun to prepare for a population reduction,” he told the Forum of Class Teachers, a Kremlin-backed organisation. “They introduced the LGBT agenda and for those who didn’t go along with it, they offered a second option — the child-free family. It’s working brilliantly. In a generation or two, there’ll be no continuation of their bloodlines. Only a small elite, the ones they actually need, will remain.”
“As for the rest — the people they don’t even see as human — they’ll be eliminated with biological weapons. A virus or something like that with a 90 per cent mortality rate will come along and mow them down,” he said.
These people are insane. They live in a Putin-bubble, where only the crazy survive.
Putin and his allies have shown an alarming tendency over the years to believe in baseless conspiracy theories. The Russian leader has previously referenced a claim that Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, thought it was “unfair” that Russia owned all of Siberia. There is no record of Albright ever making the comment.
The source of the allegation was eventually traced by The Moscow Times to a “mind-reading experiment” that was carried out by the Kremlin’s Federal Guard Service in 1999. Boris Ratnikov, a retired major general, told journalists that Russian psychics had stared at an image of Albright to “glean these things.”
Nazi Germany thrived on absurd theories, especially inside the Hitler bunker – the hollow earth theory, for one, on top of all the racial pseudo-science. Comparisons of Putin’s Russia with the Third Reich become more and more apposite with the descent into paranoid absurdity …
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