From the planet Nibiru

Svetlana Peunova about politics, aliens and moral health

Svetlana Peunova is an unusual and undoubtedly talented woman. Back in 1983, a simple music teacher allegedly stopped a nuclear cloud coming to Samara from the Balakovo nuclear power plant, in the “dashing” 90s she felt like a healer, and in the 2000s she went into politics, from where she apparently has no intention of leaving.

“I’m a brilliant person and I’m not ashamed of it,” says Peunova, with whom we are sitting in the Gingerbread cafe in the residential area of Ramenki (in one of the apartments of the neighboring high-rise building, the former presidential candidate has some kind of meeting scheduled). She's dressed at home - in a simple striped blouse, with a cozy scarf thrown over her shoulders, but for some reason I'm still nervous. Perhaps because of her slightly crazy eyes and strange, unnatural way of smiling.

Candidate

The federal press had not previously noticed the Samara politician and businessman Peunova, considering her crazy, and on a local - Samara - scale. The media had to mention Peunova in at least one line when in January 2012 she brought 243 thousand 295 signatures in her support to the Central Election Commission. The fact that 2 million signatures must be collected to register as a presidential candidate did not bother the founder of the so-called Development Academy (some consider it a front for a totalitarian sect).

“I consider my attempt to become president very successful. It was almost impossible to even register with the Central Election Commission - we even held a meeting of the initiative group in my garden in the winter,” explained a satisfied Peunova.

In Peunova’s opinion, it is impossible to honestly collect 2 million signatures, so at the Central Election Commission building she promised journalists to contact the Investigative Committee with a request to check the signatures collected by competitors Prokhorov , Yavlinsky and Mezentsev (the latter two, indeed, later had problems).

“The simple people’s party has only volunteers who collect signatures for free and really want the country not to be completely bought by America,” Peunova described the process of collecting signatures by members of her unregistered Volya party. The founding congress of Volya took place back in 2008.

Before the creation of the party, Peunova tried to enter power individually, but suffered several painful failures. She consistently lost in the elections to the State Duma in 2003 (11.07 percent) and to the mayor of Togliatti in 2004 (10.22 percent), and later could not get into the Samara Regional Duma. In response to my question about why she has still not been able to win even local elections, Peunova tells an instructive story-metaphor: “Here a man comes up to you, hits you in the face, takes everything away and leaves, and after that they tell you: what are you Well, they didn’t bring your salary home if you earn so well? Understand, this government won’t let anyone through so as not to share.”

Peunova explains her desire to become president of Russia this way: “We really want to restore order in society. When you start to go deeper and understand the intrigues, you see that your country has been sold by 90 percent and your children will not be able to not only study, but simply survive.” . This is where it turns out that Peunova is a follower of almost all the conspiracy theories existing in the world. From this moment on, the conversation gradually descends more and more into the surreal and absurd.

“Our territory has long been watched by America, the last stage of the conquest of the country is underway. 1991 was needed only to check whether its citizens would defend the USSR, and in 1993 there were up to 3 thousand victims in the White House. Yeltsin is an agent of British intelligence, - says Peunova. “We have a lot of information leaflets, and they found fault with all of them, except for the one where it is written that Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev are MI6 agents.” And all because, Peunova is sure, this, although terrible, is true.

The presidential program with which Peunova enters politics has three long-term objectives: to return natural resources, fixed assets of production and strategic enterprises to public ownership; restore the public sector of the economy and return social guarantees, including free education and medical care.

Nibiru

Still from the film "Melancholia" by Lars von Trier

When asked whether she plans to continue her political career, Peunova answers in the affirmative without hesitation. This surprises me, if not shocking. The fact is that it is in 2012 that, according to Peunova, reptilian aliens from the planet Nibiru should arrive on Earth (by the way, the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar is also scheduled for this year). Peunova repeatedly warned her supporters and ordinary people about impending reprisals.

In addition, in the near future Peunova expects the arrival of comet Elenin, which should “break the Earth’s atmosphere.” According to Peunova, she gleaned information about the comet and Nibiru from her travels and in a secret KGB report. She admits that she believes in aliens, since she “personally saw traces of their arrival in many countries.”

Having reached a more serious level (after all, only 1 million 700 thousand signatures were not enough for her to stand on a par with Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zyuganov and other pillars of Russian politics), Peunova began to express herself a little more carefully. “Politics and religion are separate. On the international scene there is North Korea, which does not recognize God, but for some reason both Freemasons and Catholics communicate with it. My views about Nibiru do not concern my political views on nationalization or the moral and ethical character of people ", explains Peunova.

The key to salvation from terrible alien monsters can only be spiritual purity. “There are such character traits as “a snake under the well,” and now they have prevailed in the government of the country. On Mars there is a sculpted face of a man, there was a civilization there, and in ancient legends they say that the Earth will explode. There was a very strong prophetess Helena Roerich ", she said that the end of the world is near due to the moral and ethical image of humanity. The time of the rotation of the poles is indicated, aliens may very well arrive. I have my own sources of information, thousands of people whom I have known for years, they tell me visions," Peunov’s conspiracy theories pour out on me.

Seeing doubt in my eyes, Peunova gradually loses her temper. “I would immodestly say that I have the fate of any original person in Russian society who is thrown mud at. Tsiolkovsky, Vernadsky were declared crazy, although in fact they are brilliant people! Tsiolkovsky said back in the 30s that Soviet people would fly into space , they twisted it at his temple, but he flew away,” says Peunova.

Allies

Despite all the declared strength and independence, Peunova, surrounded by enemies or at least people doubting her adequacy, had to look for allies. Since she calls Zyuganov, who is closest to her in spirit, an oligarch-capitalist (“He has two factories - an oil refining and a cement one, a Bentley, boots with gold studs and a yacht in the port of Tripoli”), she had to join forces with great-power patriots and nationalist outsiders.

In May 2011, she joined the so-called national-patriotic front “Sovereign Union of Russia” along with such odious personalities as ex-State Duma deputy Sergei Baburin , reserve Colonel General Leonid Ivashov and ex-Minister of Press Boris Mironov . “The state needs a transformation based on the national interests and spiritual and moral values of the Russian and other indigenous peoples of Russia,” the signed coalition agreement said.

But the relationship between Peunova and Ivashov did not work out. “Nominally we entered into an alliance, but it turned out that Ivashov organized it personally for himself, without listening to anyone’s opinions,” explains Peunova. The partners finally quarreled at the stage of nominating candidates for president. Ivashov fell out of favor almost immediately: the Central Election Commission refused to register a group of voters to support his self-nomination.

The leader of the Volya party overcame this stage, but the offended Ivashov allegedly began to obstruct her. “When he was not registered, his organizations tried to support me in collecting signatures, but Ivashov did not approve,” Peunova complains. As Ivashov himself explained to Lenta.ru, he cannot force anyone to support Peunova, since they do not have a military organization. “Why should we support her if she had absolutely no chance? I told her deputy, did you calculate your strength well? She said, yes, all the women are for us, and then they began to turn to us for help!” - the Russian officer, Colonel General of the Reserve Ivashov is indignant.

But the forgotten leader of Labor Russia, Viktor Anpilov, became Peunova’s new friend . On January 8, he even spoke at Peunova’s election rally, which she organized not just anywhere, but on Bolotnaya Square.

Victor Anpilov. Photo by RIA Novosti, Alexey Kudenko

True, no more than 100 people gathered at the rally. The representative of the Moscow branch of the Volya party, Svetlana, explained the small number of the rally by the fact that “more than 50 thousand people watched it on the Internet.” “People have become lazy, why go to a rally if you can watch at home,” Svetlana said, as if there were no mass rallies on Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue in December.

For some reason, Anpilov did not want to talk about his relationship with Peunova. “What do I think about Peunova? This is an incorrect question,” Anpilov told Lente.ru. In response to a repeated request, he rattled off: “She is a woman, and women need to go into politics, after Stalin not a single man has coped with the responsibilities of the head of state, there is nothing to say about the current tandem. Against this background, Peunova looks preferable.” Having said this, Anpilov wished me all the best and hung up.

With the opposition, which brought tens of thousands of people to Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue in December 2011, Peunova is especially not on her way. “A grandiose performance is being played out before our eyes. I studied the political technologies of the United States, which you can read about in the books “The Committee of 300” and “Secret Societies and Their Power in the 20th Century” by Helsing. It is well described there how the masses are now being professionally fooled. The USA has everywhere his proteges, now Putin has objectively lost, and America, which stood for Putin, is passing the flag to another, but Putin does not want to lose it. So it turns out that our industry, which is 90 percent in the hands of foreigners, is divided by Putin and the velvet revolutionaries. Libya, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine followed these steps,” explains Peunova.

Congregation

If someone thinks that such extravagant ideas cannot enjoy mass support, then he will not be entirely right. Peunova's YouTube channel has already been viewed more than 3 million times, and the Volya party claims to have the 50 thousand members needed to register throughout Russia (if the threshold is lowered to 500 people, as Medvedev promised, it is not at all clear what will be able to stop Peunova ).

The lion's majority of Peunova's supporters are women who are dissatisfied with something. “The Volya party is a women’s party,” explains Ivashov. “They mainly have a women’s sector, they wanted to create a broad women’s movement.”

These women consider themselves personally indebted to Peunova for their own health, success, and perhaps even life. If in the 90s Peunova called herself a healer and opened a Center for Traditional Medicine in Samara, then soon, according to her, she managed to come up with a new unique “method” based exclusively on psychology (on its basis in 2006 she even defended her Ph.D. thesis) .

The essence of Peunova’s method is very simple, and lies in “empathy”. “I just talk to the person, I have no idea of curing the person, I don’t ask for a diagnosis. I just show him his moral and ethical mistakes, and the person is cured himself. I tell him: “You know what kind of character you have, I’ll show you now.” where did you go wrong? A person understands, he begins to remove psychological pressures, his immunity rises, and everything that does not go away with medications goes away,” says Peunova.

In particular, the leader of the Moscow branch of Volya, Svetlana, said that it was a conversation with Peunova that helped her recover from various illnesses. Now it is her photograph that flaunts in Svetlana’s car in the place where the icon is usually placed. “Svetlana Peunova is a very kind person, I admire her patience and strength, her cordial attitude towards people, even those like this journalist - cold, heartless, looking only for the negative for his report”; “Finally, they started showing Svetlana Peunova. I generally admire her, she always speaks verified data. And she doesn’t engage in empty talk. She’s a strong woman,” they wrote in the comments to the video version of the Lenta.ru interview with Peunova.

Peunova’s assistants unexpectedly posted the video online the very next day after our conversation took place. In four days, more than 10 thousand people watched it, who were mostly satisfied with Peunova, who managed not only to “knock down” the journalist, but even almost “tear him into small pieces.”

Although Peunova tries to present herself as a man of the people and not a businessman, her academy brings her money. The amount, apparently, is not small. A two-month subscription to the ABC of Happiness course will cost a Samara woman 12 thousand rubles. But the person who has passed it will learn to “cope with his own complexes and fears and simply become the architect of his life.” For simpler cases, you can always sign up for a one-time consultation with a specialist. A half-hour will cost 550 rubles, and a forty-minute one will cost 750 rubles.

Another source of income for Peunova is her publishing house, in which she publishes her own books, for example, “I’m getting younger every day... Return of youth” or “Training “Little people - big opportunities.” In one of the books, Peunova even seemed to write that she stopped nuclear cloud coming to Samara from the Balakovo nuclear power plant, and also prevented an invasion of locusts.In addition, the aspiring politician writes poetry, which can be found on her website.

As a result, on Peunova’s side there are several thousand (and maybe several tens of thousands) women who are personally indebted to her. “These are deep, smart, very strong people. Therefore, the authorities cannot break us,” says Peunova. One can believe that such people could collect the real 243 thousand signatures. And they will be able to collect the 300 thousand necessary for a presidential candidate in 2018 if Medvedev keeps his promises.

Sect

Her academy is usually called a sect, and a totalitarian sect at that. Elements of religion are indeed present in Peunova’s “method”. “Prayer is the only state that helps a person to be human. Therefore, my people know how to pray and meditate, analyze themselves,” says the leader of the Volya party.

“Will” was dubbed a totalitarian sect back in 2004. However, Peunova claims that it was the famous expert on sects, Alexander Dvorkin, who came up with calling her school a sect . According to Peunova, “the Jew Dvorkin, who stole people in the United States,” was hired by the Russian Orthodox Church so that “he would remove its competitors.” Thus, Peunova does not hesitate to call herself a competitor of the church.

The fact that Peunova’s “treatment” process was organized “in the spirit of the most “advanced” totalitarian sects” was written in the Samara media for a long time. The fight against Peunova on the Internet is quite active. On March 4, 2010, the article about Peunova was even removed from Wikipedia for “lack of significance” and “complete self-promotion.” But later it was restored.

Peunova clearly likes questions about politics more than questions about her healing or near-religious activities. In any case, about half an hour into the interview she begins to get very nervous. “It seems to me that you came to confirm the minus. Can you ask anything good? Think about me, after all. Am I such a bad person that you only ask negative questions?” - Peunova suddenly began to wail.

Finally, she almost fell into hysterics and explained that she was “a woman with two children who is fighting monsters who are preparing a bullet for her.” It immediately became clear that the Hasidic sect was planning to kill her, declaring to one of her supporters that Peunova would no longer be around next month. But for now, God, or as Peunova calls him “the law,” protects her.

Ilya Azar

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