Yuri Krivonogov

Yuri Krivonogov
Юрий Андреевич Кривоногов
Born (1941-05-15) May 15, 1941
Staraya Kriusha, Voronezh Oblast, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet Union, Ukraine
Known forFounder of the "Institute of the Soul 'Atma'" (White Brotherhood)
SpouseMarina Tsvigun
Scientific career
FieldsCybernetics, engineering

Yuri Andreevich Krivonogov (born 15 May 1941, village of Staraya Kriusha, Voronezh Oblast) is a Soviet and Ukrainian cybernetics engineer,[1] a Candidate of Technical Sciences,[2] and the founder and leader of the "Institute of the Soul 'Atma'" (the White Brotherhood).[3][4] He collaborated with a secret department of the Soviet KGB that studied mass consciousness manipulation.[5][6][7]

Biography

He was born on 15 May 1941 in Voronezh Oblast. A cybernetics engineer by training, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in 1978 at the Kharkiv Institute of Radioelectronics (the dissertation dealt with operational dispatch control systems). He worked at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Novosibirsk[8] and cooperated with the Mykolaiv Center of Psychotronics, where, under the aegis of the KGB, an “antidote” to the CIA’s mind‑control projects was being prepared.[9][6][7] During perestroika he suddenly abandoned his scientific career and became a Hare Krishna devotee.[10] After a while he left the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and in 1990 founded his own organization, the “Institute of the Soul ‘Atma’”, which later became known as the “White Brotherhood”.[11]

Krivonogov and his wife, a former Komsomol activist Marina Tsvigun, declared themselves deities and developed their own eclectic religious teaching, “Yusmalos”.[12] A central element of this teaching was an intense expectation of the end of the world, when the “children of Satan – the Immanuelites” would perish and the Yusmalians would live an endless life in the paradise that would be established on earth. Marina Tsvigun acted as the “living god”, called Maria Devi Christos, while Krivonogov appointed himself “God’s vicar on earth Yuoann Svami” and patriarch of the “Brotherhood”.[13]

Adherents of the sect were persuaded that the time of humanity's existence was coming to an end and that it was necessary to resist the Antichrist with all one's strength. This resistance would be possible only if a person refrained from obtaining an education, working, taking part in public life, keeping electronic equipment at home, marrying, or having children, so as not to hand them over to the Antichrist later. By using methods of active psychological pressure, the organisers drove their followers into frenzied fanaticism. Rank-and-file adherents were forced to sell their apartments for the benefit of the sect. As a result, hundreds of people who fell under the influence of the Krivonogovs were left homeless. The institute began to grow rapidly, soon went beyond the borders of Ukraine, where it had been founded, and spread across Russia and Belarus.

The arrival of the Last Judgment, after which the Brotherhood would enjoy paradise on earth while all other people perished in flames, was set for the autumn of 1993. In November, almost all the sect's members gathered in Kyiv, where they expected to meet the end of the world, and seized Saint Sophia Cathedral. Krivonogov and Tsvigun, as well as the most active members of the sect, were arrested by the Kyiv police. In 1996, Krivonogov and Tsvigun were sentenced to long prison terms: Krivonogov to 7 years, and Tsvigun to 4 years of imprisonment.[1][14]

After his release from the colony, Krivonogov gave up “missionary work” and contact with the “brothers”, tried to find a job as a university lecturer, and later worked at a department store in Kyiv.[1] After divorcing Tsvigun, he took the surname of his new wife, becoming Yuri Silvestrov.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Daugule Anastasia White Brotherhood — 15 years later Archived 2022-02-15 at the Wayback Machine // Internet review “Glavnoe”, 12.11.2008
  2. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 633, "The founder and until recently the main visible figure of the sect (at least the visible one, but it is possible that there is also an invisible center) is Yuri Krivonogov. This man is the creator of the idea, a candidate of technical sciences, almost completed his doctoral dissertation.".
  3. ↑ Balagushkin 1999.
  4. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 634, "After leaving the Krishnaites, Krivonogov founded the 'Institute of the Soul' called 'Atma', under whose name he published various booklets printed by the 'Znanie' society. They can still be found in libraries and one can familiarize oneself with Krivonogov's developments on methods of influencing a person.".
  5. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 634, "Krivonogov was engaged in methods of influencing the human personality, and, judging by a number of newspaper publications, he had a secret connection with a certain KGB department that was engaged in the same thing.".
  6. 1 2 Sokolovskaya, Ya. Maria Devi Christos, also known as Marina Tsvigun, sent to prison camp // Izvestia, 9 January 1997
  7. 1 2 Sokolovskaya, Ya. The prophet of the White Brotherhood worked for the KGB // Izvestia, 25 December 1995
  8. ↑ Дворкин 2006, p. 634, Он работал в киевском Институте невралгии и психиатрии и вполне мог бы продвигаться по научной лестнице, но решил заняться деятельностью на другом поприще.
  9. ↑ Дворкин 2006, p. 634, Занимался Кривоногов методами воздействия на человеческую личность, и, судя по целому ряду газетных публикаций, у него была секретная связь с определённым отделом КГБ, который занимался тем же.
  10. ↑ Дворкин 2006, p. 634, В какой-то момент своей жизни Кривоногов вступил в «Общество сознания Кришны» и некоторое время пробыл кришнаитом (тут то же прослеживается весьма любопытная связь). По свидетельству бывших кришнаитов, отечественная кришнаитская организация — очень жёсткая, чрезвычайно авторитарная. Кривоногов тоже является весьма авторитарным человеком, поэтому неизбежно произошло столкновение характеров, и в конце концов он написал заявление об уходе из секты «по собственному желанию в связи с переходом в Великое Белое братство, но можно предположить, что, руководствуясь своими давними интересами, он вошёл в секту для того, чтобы изучать способы воздействия на человеческий разум — пресловутого „промывания мозгов“».
  11. ↑ Дворкин 2006, p. 634, Уйдя от кришнаитов Кривоногов основал "Институт души" под названием «Атма», от имени которого он издавал различные брошюрки, печатавшиеся обществом «Знание». Их до сих пор можно найти в библиотеках и ознакомиться с кривоноговскими разработками о способах воздействия на человека..
  12. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 635, “During one of these trips, while in Dnepropetrovsk, Krivonogov met a young woman named Marina Tsvigun. He immediately recognised her qualities and took her into his team, soon declaring her ‘God’ on earth after marrying her. It is known that Tsvigun worked in the Dnepropetrovsk district committee of the Komsomol, then at a local newspaper, and later as radio editor for the Donetsk worsted‑spinning mill. She was a member of the CPSU and the Union of Journalists of Ukraine. According to her husband, during her seventh abortion she experienced something like clinical death and had a hallucinatory experience. In any case, Krivonogov declared that her soul left her body and ascended to heaven, and that another soul – the Divine – entered Marina’s vacated body. It seems that Marina herself sincerely believed this.”.
  13. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 635, “Krivonogov spent a long time ‘searching for himself’: he called himself John the Forerunner, then Elijah the Prophet, but in the end he called himself Yuoann Svami and declared that his soul had passed through a whole series of incarnations – he had been John the Baptist, Tutankhamun, Prince Vladimir, the prophet Elijah, Noah, the ‘prophet Jacob’ and many others before his soul settled in Krivonogov’s body. Marina Tsvigun also underwent an evolution in self‑identification: at first she was the Mother of God, but gradually became God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the Creator of the Universe named Maria Devi Christos. Her relationship with God the Father is not entirely clear, because Yuoann Svami also somehow had a connection to God the Father. They did not quite agree on this, so their leaflets and publications define it differently. Marina Tsvigun (she called herself ‘He’) was to spend three and a half years on earth to gather the ‘faithful remnant’ – 144,000 faithful. This would be the new race of Yusmalians (YUSMALOS – an acronym for ‘Yuoann Svami Maria Logos’; someone noted that in Latin Jus malos means ‘law of evil’, but whether this is coincidental is unknown). At the end of the earthly ministry of the being that entered Marina Tsvigun, the ‘programme for the salvation of the Earth – Yusmalos’ was ‘activated’. This was announced on 1 July 1990. A completion date for the programme was also given – 24 November 1993. Yuoann Svami and Maria Devi Christos were to be the last to depart. They were to be crucified, their bodies would lie in the street for three days, and then they would be resurrected and ascend. On that day the Last Judgement would occur, the world would collapse, and the light would go out. The evil world would perish in flames, and the White Brotherhood would ultimately be reborn for a new life. This is the sacrifice the earth requires for human sins. The ‘White Brothers’ were to end up in paradise, and everyone else in hell. From paradise the new race of Yusmalians would take possession of the whole world and begin a new life in the Kingdom of God.”.
  14. ↑ Dvorkin 2006, p. 639, Tsivgun was given four years, Vitaliy Kovalchuk — six years, Krivonogov — seven. In August 1997, “citizen Tsivgun” was released. Her new betrothed Kovalchuk was released soon after her — by amnesty. Krivonogov served his full term and was released only in early 2000. He stated that the “White Brotherhood” was a mistake for which he paid with his prison time, and he no longer wanted to recall it..

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