Aum Shinrikyo and Cults that Went Wacko

The True Russian Orthodox Church
Leader: Pyotr Kuznetsov

In the Penza region of Russia, Father Pyotr, as his followers call him, claimed that apocalypse would come in May 2008 and that God would show him and his followers how to survive. Sect members were told to burn their passports for fear of government surveillance and because the documents contained the number 666. And then, Kuznetsov said, the sect spent six weeks digging an underground shelter...

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