Russian Doomsday Death Cult Books Banned

I’m really not generally in favour in of book banning (see earlier post), but I can understand the anxieties of the Russian authorities with regard to the published writings of the “Doomsday” cult leader, Pyotr Kuznetsov.

In November2007, thirty-five members of the True Russian Orthodox Church entered an underground bunker in anticipation of a predicted apocalypse.

Today, only 9 members remain underground (twenty-four left their underground hideaway when it began to collapse) determined to stay put and threatening mass suicide if anyone attempts to remove them.

Now, authorities in the Penza region have declared Kuznetsov’s writings illegal claiming that they incite religious and racial hatred.

Kuznetsov himself is currently in a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt.

(Via Russia Today)