Following yesterday’s entirely speculative post related to the possibility of Black Metal fans burning down churches in Texas, news reaches us from deepest Russia of an actual, full-on Satanic cult engaged in foul deeds:

Investigators say that the Saransk-based Nobilis Ordo Diaboli group recruited young people from across the region between 2003 and 2009. The cult’s founding members, 24-year-old Belarus national Alexander Kazakov and 23-year-old local Denis Danishin, face a number of charges, ranging from the sexual abuse of minors to battery.

Prosecutors say potential members, many of whom were recruited via the internet and were of “good families”, were forced to take part in alcohol-fuelled orgies during which they pledged their souls to Kazakov. Investigators also suspect the group was preparing to carry out human sacrifices.

Apparently Kazakov, a medical student, was quite ambitious and even attempted to place members of his ‘Noble Order of the Devil’ in the local police force. However RIA Novosti reports:

The cult’s attempts to infiltrate the police are believed to have ended in failure, with at least one member rejected due to his “strange tendencies.”

Before dryly noting:

An article on the newsru.com website regretted that the Russian police force, whose officers have been charged with crimes ranging from burning suspects alive to beheading in the last 18 months or so, were not always so effective in weeding out sadistic applicants.

And whereas in the USA the anti-Satanic music campaign spearheaded by Al Gore’s wife and subsequent Satanic abuse scare of the 90s spearheaded by Geraldo Rivera may have led to greater skepticism of these kinds of devilish conspiracies, in post- soviet Russia they are taken very seriously:

In 2008, Interior Ministry experts announced that Satanism was a greater threat to the country’s national security than Islamic radicalism.

Indeed, after reading the RIA report I spent a few minutes searching through Russian news sites and discovered a report that in Yaroslavl in 2008 members of a different Satanic sect were arrested for the ritual sacrifice of four adolescents after spending a year or two working up to it by killing cats and dogs.

Sadly for these Satanists and also the latest batch in Saransk they seem to have forgotten that Lucifer is not known as the Father of Lies for nothing. For instead of acquiring great power from their dark master, they are destined to rot in Russian prisons, which are quite good at offering their inhabitants a little foretaste of hell on earth.

Ashtaroth!

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