Now it’s hard to imagine an educated person whose date “2012” would not cause certain associations - mostly a negative plan. Of course, a key role in this was played by the recently released blockbuster Roland Emmerich “2012”, but the salt is that the film itself was shot in the wake of interest in a specific date. It is unlikely that we will error against the truth, saying that it was in 2009 that this wave reached its peak. And this, note, three years before the fatal December 23, 2012 .