19/08/2026
Why Russia Sent Attack Helicopters For "The Jesus of Siberia"
How does a completely regular night-shift traffic cop convince thousands of highly educated doctors, engineers, and successful professionals to throw away their entire reality for a lie?
Meet Sergei Anatolyevich Torop—better known to the world as Vissarion, the self-proclaimed "Jesus of Siberia" or the "Messiah of Russia."
In 1991, right as the Soviet Union collapsed into absolute chaos, this man walked straight into the freezing wilderness of the Siberian taiga and made a shocking claim that completely flipped millions of lives upside down. For nearly thirty years, his followers surrendered their homes, real estate in Moscow, and their entire life savings to build a secret, hand-built eco-city called the "City of the Sun."
Por qué Rusia envió helicópteros de ataque por ‘El Jesús de Siberia’
Por que a Rússia enviou helicópteros de ataque por ‘O Jesus da Sibéria’
They literally banned meat, outlawed normal money, and completely wiped out the global calendar to celebrate his birthday instead of Christmas.
But in late 2020, three decades of absolute rule came to a crashing, violent end. Heavily armed units from the Russian Security Service and National Guard surrounded the remote compound using armored vehicles and attack helicopters in a massive, top-secret joint raid.
Was he just a peaceful spiritual teacher, a mastermind of dark psychological control, or something far stranger? Step right inside the isolated world of Russia's false messiah, his 12-year prison sentence, and the dramatic rise and fall of his private empire.
Watch the full investigation to see how this wild story finishes.
