>>214648171 (OP)
>After earning a degree in journalism from Moscow State University, Allan Chumak began his television career in 1965 as a sports commentator. In the early 1980s he worked at the Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology, before being allotted the 15-minute television slot that would make him famous as a faith healer
So basically he was government agent tasked to distract the people in the declining Soviet Union with mystical bullshit, right?
Absolutely and completely coincidentally, we also had mystical gurus in the early 90s, all the way to now.